Depliant Montfort impressionniste version anglaise

Montfort
René SAUTIN
Impressionnist/Fauve
Impressionnist
Proud, distinguished and cultured, Sautin suffered greatly from his
lack of recognition during his lifetime and regretted his isolation.
« My life has often been hard and difficult» He used to say.
Although living in Les Andelys, he regularly came back to stay in
Montfort and Pont Audemer to paint. His considerable work
includes many paintings of the Risle valley.
René Sautin was born in
Montfort sur Risle at 18, rue St
Pierre in 1881. In 2000, a
commemorative plaque was
placed above the porch of the
building in which he used to
live. After going to primary
school in Montfort and then to
secondary school in Pont
Audemer, René Sautin went to
Rouen Art school and studied
in the studio of the artist,
Philippe Zacharie, his drawing
master.
Albert LEBOURG
The native house of R.Sautin
He then went to Paris and spent
a year in the Ferrier Studio
before exhibiting his work at the
"salon des indépendants". He
married Marthe Leclerc in 1910
but they remained childless.
In 1911, he settled in Les
Andelys where he met Manzana,
Pissaro, Luce and Maurice de
Vlaminck with whom he became
close.
René Sautin
and his wife
René Sautin's painting is
essentially
concerned
with
landscapes and seascapes.
In 1923, he turned from
impressionism to fauvism
reaching the peak of his
artistic
powers
in
the
1950s.He is one of the few
painters from Normandy to
have
painted
powerful
landscapes
in
such
a
personal manner, expressing
both a degree of restrained
violence and deep sensitivity.
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The surroundings of the maritime section of the Risle River and
luminous views of Montfort have taken the talent of René Sautin
well beyond our frontiers.
“Essentially, painting involves
spreading
paste
and
not
scumbling
it.
From
this
starting point I paint in thick layers,
without scumble, each brush
stroke
is
final.
I
never
rework a tone. This gives my
painting
great
power
and
character.
What
makes
a
particular tone beautiful is its
daring
and
rich
colour.
The art of painting lies in creating
or interpreting what one feels or
sees,
everything
else
is
meaningless.”
R. Sautin
René SAUTIN
Towards the end of his life, Sautin began to lose his sight. His work
changed; his drawings were now outlined in black. The artist
compensated for his loss of sight by using brighter and more
agressive colours. He stopped painting in 1964, at the age of 87,
four years before his death.
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Albert LEBOURG
Lebourg, whose father was a
law clerk, was born in the rue
de l’Ecu in Montfort, on 1st,
February 1849. He went to
secondary school in Evreux
before going on to artistic
studies at Rouen drawing
school under the direction of
Drouin, an architect, who
introduced
him
to
the
The native house of A. Lebourg
landscape
painter,
Victor
He gave up studying architecture in
Delamarre.
order to follow the lessons of
Gustave Morin at Rouen Art School.
The School Rouen
While he was living in Paris,
Albert Lebourg met Portier, an art
gallery owner, who sold his
paintings for him and introduced
him to a circle of artists. From
now on he began to become well
known.
After the death of his wife on 3rd December 1894, Lebourg
decided to go to the Netherlands with Melicourt, an artist from
Dieppe. He stayed there from 1895 to 1897. In 1900 he also
went briefly to Great Britain where he deepened his knowledge
of the work of Turner, Constable and Gainsborough.
In 1871, he met the art collector,
Laperlier who helped him gain a
position as a drawing teacher at the
Alger Fine Art Society, where he
remained from 1872 to 1877,
producing works such as “Rue
d’Alger” (Rouen Art Museum), in
1875.
Between 1884 and 1886 he
often
spent
time
in
Auvergne
producing
impressionist works such as
“Neige
en
Auvergne”
(Rouen Art museum) in
1886, where a river restores
the presence of water, a
recurring feature of his
work.
Albert Lebourg
Preferring to work from nature rather
than in a studio, he worked on
painting a single setting under
different lighting conditions as Monet
was to do later on.
After having married Marie Guilloux in 1873, he left his teaching
position in Algeria and came back to Paris in 1877, where he
worked in Jean-Paul Laurens’ studio from 1878 to 1880. It was
during this time that he became aware of Impressionism and
subsequently became friends with Degas, Monet and Sisley. He
showed his work for the first time at the 1883 Salon de la Société
des Artistes Français and again in 1886. The Société Nationale des
Beaux-Arts was established in 1889 and he showed his work
regularly there from 1891 to 1914.
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An International Artist
Albert Lebourg was a great traveller unlike the other Rouen
School artists. Along with excursions to Bougival, Puteaux, La
Rochelle and Boulogne sur Mer, he also made trips to la Bouille
et Bonsecours before establishing himself at 2 quai de Havre, in
Rouen.
From then on, apart
from a few trips to
Honfleur
and
Montfort, where he
became
friends
with René Sautin,
Lebourg rarely left
Paris or Rouen
remaining near the
banks of the Seine.
He continued to work in the impressionist manner with
landscapes such as “Petite ferme près de l’eau (Ile de vaux)”
(Rouen Fine Arts museum) until 1920 when he suffered a stroke
and was paralysed.
By now married to his sister-in-law, Alice Guilloux, he stopped
painting in 1925. He died in Rouen on 6th January 1928.
Impressed by the Risle
valley, Lebourg told his
friend René Sautin “All of
nature
can
be
encapsulated in just one
small area. It’s our vision
which magnifies the sight.”
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