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Gustave CARIOT (1872-1950)
"Harvest" Oil on canvas 66x81 cm Signed lower right "G. Cariot 1929"
About the artist
Gustave CARIOT was a French post-impressionist painter then pointillist, born in 1872 in Périgny-sur-Yerres-near Paris, he died in 1950 in Paris. His father was a trunk maker in the Marais in Paris and encouraged Gustave to become his apprentice, but the young CARIOT preferred an artistic career. In his youth, he devoted his free time to drawing and sketching various views of the city and the countryside. Finally CARIOT joined the Société des Artistes Indépendants and began exhibiting in major Parisian exhibitions. In addition to exhibiting with the National Salon of Fine Arts, CARIOT participated in the Salon d'Automne and the Salon d'Hiver. He was mainly interested in the pointillist technique, without having become a full-fledged Neo-Impressionist. Inspired by the studies of Monet and his cathedral in Rouen, CARIOT studied the effects of changing light and painted several series of works showing Paris and the French or German countryside at different times of the day and in different seasons. In 1909, a scandal arose in the "Salon d'Automne" and Gustave CARIOT was its victim. The details of this scandal brought into the public place by André Rouveyre, a well-known writer, cartoonist and regular member of the jury of the Salon d'Automne, in his documentation of the facts and letters to this case, published by the "Mercure de France "in 1911-1912. After the First World War Gustave CARIOT remained in Germany. He spent most of his time in Georgenborn (now called Schlangenbad-Georgenborn) near Wiesbaden, married for the 2nd time to Frieda, he regularly traveled back and forth to France.
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