"eugène Alluaud View Of The Ruins Of Crozant French School 20th Century Signed Oil"
ALLUAUD Eugene ( 1866 / 1947 )
View of the ruins of Crozant.
Oil on canvas signed lower left, dated November 12, 37 on the back.
65 x 81.5 cm
Certificate of authenticity.
Eugène Alluaud, born in Saint-Martin-Terressus (Haute-Vienne) on March 25, 1866 and died in Crozant (Creuse) on July 27, 1947, is a French painter and ceramist. His father Amédée, an enlightened art lover and collector, receives Corot several times in his castle of Ribagnac. An intimate friend of Adrien Dubouché, he supports the painters of Crozant. When he died, his friend and painter Charles Donzel gave the young Eugene advice on pictorial matters. Alluaud studied literature at the Jesuit college of Vaugirard and then science at the Condorcet high school. He completed his military service as a conditional conscript for one year in 1885-1886. It is on this occasion that he befriends the painter Jules Adler.De 1886 to 1889, he is a student at the Julian Academy, in the studio of Bouguereau and in that of Robert-Fleury, travels through Europe (England, Belgium and Italy) and North Africa (Algeria and Tunisia).His major pictorial experience, it is to Crozant that he owes it. After a first discovery in 1887, he returned there for a long time in 1891. With his wife Marcelle, he built the house "La Roca" there, where they settled every summer from 1905. He gathers their artist friends around his table. Together they paint the landscapes of the Creuse Valley and entertain themselves in a joyful atmosphere.Two names emerge from this network of friendships: Maurice Rollinat, the poet of Fresselines, and Armand Guillaumin, co-founder of the Impressionists group, who introduces him to light and color. His painting therefore strongly undergoes impressionism before managing to emerge from it in the 1920s, by a more constructive and synthetic style inspired by Cézanne.Il regularly exhibits in galleries, in Limoges at Dalpayrat and in Paris at Durand-Ruel and Drouant. He regularly participates in the Salon des indépendants and the Salon d'automne. During the Universal Exhibition of 1900, he decorated the Palace of Dance and the pavilion-restaurant of the Major Brands. President of the jury of the painting Section at the Salon d'Automne in 1928, he himself received the grand prize at the French Exhibition in Cairo in 1929.Alluaud mainly devoted himself to painting the Creuse, but he also painted the Corrèze and Haute-Vienne, the Pyrenees and the Côte d'Azur.
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