Robert Antoine Pinchon Art
French, 1886-1943
Robert Antoine Pinchon was a French painter born in Rouen on 1 July 1886, and one of the most distinctive voices of early 20th-century Normandy. Celebrated above all for his landscapes, river views, townscapes, and the changing skies of the Seine valley, Pinchon developed a vividly personal language rooted in direct observation and an instinctive, highly refined sense of colour. From a young age he embraced a bold, Fauve-inflected palette, yet he remained faithful to his own course and, unlike several of his contemporaries, did not move into Cubism. His art is consistently driven by light: shifting atmospheres, flashes of brightness on stone and water, and the heightened colour sensations of autumn and dusk.
Pinchon’s most important works include a sustained series devoted to the Seine, often around Rouen, alongside numerous views of Haute-Normandie in which the landscape becomes a stage for chromatic experimentation. His paint handling, both energetic and controlled, allowed him to convey movement and weather with remarkable immediacy while maintaining a strong sense of structure. Claude Monet is said to have admired him as “an astonishing hand in the service of a surprising eye,” a remark that neatly captures the balance in Pinchon’s work between spontaneity and precision.
Beyond his studio practice, Pinchon was an active cultural figure in Rouen’s artistic life. He was elected to the Académie de Rouen in 1932 and later became its President in 1941, recognition of his standing within the region. His life was also marked by the upheavals of his time: mobilised during the First World War, he was wounded at Berry-au-Bac during the Battle of the Marne and later taken prisoner in the course of the fighting around Verdun.
Pinchon died on 9 January 1943 in Bois-Guillaume, near Rouen. Today, he is widely regarded as a leading Norman colourist of his generation, an artist who translated familiar places into radiant, ever-changing impressions, and whose rare figure studies offer a particularly intimate counterpoint to a body of work dominated by landscape and light.to
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Artist: Robert Antoine Pinchon
Un Jardin - Post Impressionist Landscape Oil Painting by Robert Pinchon
By Robert Antoine Pinchon
Located in Marlow, Buckinghamshire
Signed fauvist oil on canvas landscape circa 1910 by French post impressionist painter Robert Antoine Pinchon. This piece depicts a garden in bloom in summer. The garden is beside th...
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1910s Fauvist Robert Antoine Pinchon Art
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Jardin du roses - Post Impressionist Landscape Oil by Robert Pinchon
By Robert Antoine Pinchon
Located in Marlow, Buckinghamshire
Signed fauvist oil on canvas landscape circa 1912 by French post impressionist painter Robert Antoine Pinchon. This piece depicts a blooming garden in summer. The garden is bursting ...
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Arbres en fleurs - Post Impressionist River Landscape Oil by Robert Pinchon
By Robert Antoine Pinchon
Located in Marlow, Buckinghamshire
Signed fauvist oil on canvas riverscape circa 1912 by French post impressionist painter Robert Antoine Pinchon. This autumnal landscape depicts a view of a bridge over a river with a...
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1910s Post-Impressionist Robert Antoine Pinchon Art
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Bord de Seine automnal
By Robert Antoine Pinchon
Located in LE HAVRE, FR
Robert Antoine PINCHON (1886–1943) Bord de Seine, automnale
Oil on canvas. Dimensions without frame: 27 × 35 cm
Dimensions with frame: 45 x 53 cm
Unsigned
Provenance: Private collect...
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1920s Post-Impressionist Robert Antoine Pinchon Art
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La Colline Saint Catherine - Post Impressionist Landscape Oil by Robert Pinchon
By Robert Antoine Pinchon
Located in Marlow, Buckinghamshire
Signed fauvist oil on canvas riverscape c.1908 by French post impressionist painter Robert Antoine Pinchon. The work depicts a view of the River Seine in Rouen, with Saint Catherine'...
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Duclair - La Seine - Post Impressionist Oil, River Landscape by Robert Pinchon
By Robert Antoine Pinchon
Located in Marlow, Buckinghamshire
Fauvist signed oil on canvas riverscape circa 1920 by French post impressionist painter Robert Antoine Pinchon. The work depicts a view of the R...
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1920s Post-Impressionist Robert Antoine Pinchon Art
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Portrait of Geneviève Pinchon in a Hat
By Robert Antoine Pinchon
Located in Paris, Île-de-France
Robert Antoine PINCHON (Rouen 1886 – Bois-Guillaume 1943)
Portrait of Geneviève Pinchon in a Hat (believed to represent the artist’s daughter)
Oil on canvas,
50 × 39 cm
Unsigned
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Early 20th Century Post-Impressionist Robert Antoine Pinchon Art
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La Colline Saint Catherine - Post Impressionist Landscape Oil by Robert Pinchon
By Robert Antoine Pinchon
Located in Marlow, Buckinghamshire
Signed fauvist oil on canvas riverscape circa 1908 by French post impressionist painter Robert Antoine Pinchon. This very fine large example was painted by Robert Pinchon around 1907...
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Early 1900s Post-Impressionist Robert Antoine Pinchon Art
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