"Octave Linet French School 20th The Ruins Of Crozant Oil On Canvas Signed"
Octave LINET ( 1870 / 1962 )
The ruins of Crozant.
Oil on canvas signed at the bottom left.
44 x 54 cm
Octave LINET is a French painter born in Bléré (Indre-et-Loire) on September 25, 1870 and died in Paris on November 9, 1962.
Octave Linet exhibited at the Salon of the National Academy of Fine Arts for the first time in 1888. Founding member of the Salon d'automne, he participates in the Salon des indépendants.
Octave LINET attended the Crozant School in 1905. The Salon of 1906 exhibits five Creuse landscapes, including four views of the ruins.
He travels mainly in France and Spain.
We owe him landscapes of Brittany, Touraine, Creuse, Normandy or the French Riviera. In Paris, he paints in particular the banks of the Seine, views of the roofs and works related to theaters, some of which are preserved at the Carnavalet Museum. In the Oise Valley, he stays in Éragny where he meets his friend Léon Giran-Max and multiplies the river banks from the Neuville-sur-Oise loop to Saint-Leu-d'Esserent, street scenes, villages and parties. We also owe him still lifes where he sometimes stages objects from his personal collection of medieval and religious art.
A great collector, he bequeathed to the Tours Museum part of his collection including thirty-seven primitives and 12 high-period sculptures. A fine connoisseur and great scholar, he was the collaborator of great collector Joseph Spiridon and the intimate of Suzanne Valadon and Utrillo, Max Jacob and Dufy.
The Pontoise and Carnavalet museums preserve several of his works.
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