"Charreton Victor Post-impressionist Painting Early TWENTIETH Sunny Landscape Signed Oil Painting"
Victor CHARRETON ( 1864 / 1936 )
Sunny landscape.
Oil on panel signed and dedicated "a simple loving memory" at the bottom left.
37.5 x 46 cm
Museums: Albi, Boston, Bourgoin, Carcassonne, Chambéry, Charleston, Clermont-Ferrand, Cleveland, Concord, Geneva, Grenoble, Lyon, Madrid, Metz, Narbonne, New York, New Orleans, Paris (Orsay Museum, Petit Palais Museum), Riom, Toulouse. CHARRETON Victor, Léon, Jean-Pierre, Born in 1864 in Bourgoin (Isère) / Died in 1936 in Clermont-Ferrand (Puy-de-Dome)
Landscape painter, flowers, gouache painter, pastellist, Post-Impressionist.
Victor CHARRETON studied law and was admitted before the Court of Appeal of Lyon. He has been practicing painting as an amateur since his childhood and studies at Hareux and Japy in Lyon. But in 1902, Victor CHARRETON gave up his legal career to devote himself completely to painting, and settled in Paris, while joining, in the summer, his house, near Clermont-Ferrand. He also travels a lot: Corsica, Algeria, Spain, England, Belgium, Holland, Germany. Victor CHARRETON led a life of aesthete and man of culture, lover of poetry and music. He was a landscape painter of the Lyon tradition, with a taste for sensual pigment impasto, looking for momentary, instantaneous effects, which had captured the Impressionists - In addition to his native Dauphiné and the Auvergne of adoption, Victor CHARRETON was also sensitive to the charms of the Ile-de-France, Paris (Montmartre, Luxembourg Gardens, Montsouris Park), Provence, Creuse, Brittany. he was looking for intimate aspects with the flamboyance of autumn landscapes, and especially, the effects of snow, - the snow that evens everything out, being an ideal starting point to magnify nature. After painting twilight, halftone backlights, misty sunsets, Victor CHARRETON gave more and more importance to light and color. It was located exactly at the hinge of the century of the finishing Impressionism and the century of the upheavals started by Fauvism.Victor CHARRETON has exhibited at the Paris and Lyon Salons, in several provincial cities and abroad: New York, Geneva, Barcelona and obtained numerous awards.Victor CHARRETON was founder of Salon d'automne and general secretary. He was made a knight of the Legion of Honor