Pinchon Darnetal
Robert Antoine PINCHON(1886-1943)
"Le Robec à Darnetal" Painting, Oil on canvas, 80 x 100 cm Signed lower left "Robert pinchon"
About the artist
Robert Antoine Pinchon (July 1, 1886 in Rouen - January 9, 1943 in Bois-Guillaume) is a second generation Post-Impressionist painter from the School of Rouen. From the age of nineteen (1905-1907) he worked in a fawn style, but never deviated into cubism, and, unlike others, never found that Post-Impressionism fulfilled not his artistic needs. Around 1903, the great art lover François Depeaux noticed him. At Depeaux, Robert Antoine Pinchon has many times the opportunity to converse with Albert Lebourg, Camille Pissarro and Claude Monet. Monet who defines him as: "An astonishing touch at the service of a surprising eye". Among his important works are a series of paintings of the Seine, mostly around Rouen, and landscapes depicting places near Haute-Normandie. Son of Robert Pinchon, librarian, journalist, dramatic critic of the city of Rouen and close friend of Guy de Maupassant, Robert Antoine Pinchon was very young attracted to painting. A precocious talent, he exhibited his first paintings in 1900, at the age of 14. Robert Antoine Pinchon did his secondary studies at the Lycée Corneille in Rouen then took courses at the School of Fine Arts in the same city. He participated in the Municipal Fair of Fine Arts in Rouen in 1903, in the Salon d'Automne in 1905 and 1906, in Paris, at the Legrip Gallery in 1905 and 1906, in Rouen. He also participated in the Société des Artistes Rouennais, at the Museum of Fine Arts in Rouen in 1907, at the Galerie des Artistes Modernes (Chaine and Simonson), in Paris, in 1909, at the Salon du Havre in 1909, 1922 and 1923, at the Galerie AM Reitlinger, 12 rue La Boétie in Paris in 1926, at the Salon des Tuileries in 1928 and 1929. Barge in the mist. Rouen Museum of Fine Arts, Donation François Depeaux, 1909 In 1907, Pinchon founded with Pierre Dumont the Groupe des Trente (XXX), independent artists and literati including André Derain, Raoul Dufy, Henri Matisse, and Maurice de Vlaminck. The shine of his palette finds an echo in the wild research then in full bloom, without ever venturing into the expressive arbitrariness of the pure color.
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