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Landscape of the Creuse Oil on Canvas Signed by Alfred Smith anticSwiss 27/09/2021 13:12:33 http://www.anticswiss.com Landscape Of The Creuse Oil On Canvas Signed By Alfred Smith FOR SALE ANTIQUE DEALER Period: 20° secolo - 1900 Violon d'Ingres Saint Ouen Style: Arte Moderna +33 06 20 61 75 97 330620617597 Height:74cm Width:69cm Price:7800€ DETAILED DESCRIPTION: SMITH Alfred (1854/1936) Hilly landscape of the Creuse. Oil on canvas signed lower left. 74 x 69 cm Certificate of authenticity. Alfred SMITH, born in Bordeaux in 1854 and died in Paris in 1936, is a French post-impressionist painter. His work has sometimes been compared to that of Claude Monet. André Alfred Smith of Strasbourg was born in Bordeaux on July 30, 1854, his father is Welsh, naturalized French, and his mother is the daughter of the notary of Saint-Ciers-sur-Gironde. In 1869 his father left the family home and left to make his fortune in the United States. So at the age of 15, Alfred and his older brother, Emmanuel found themselves breadwinners. Alfred works in a bank as a stockbroker's clerk, but he wants to become an artist and spends all his free time painting. In 1877 he made the first exhibition of his paintings at the Salon of the society of friends of the arts of Bordeaux, whose catalog indicates that his master is Hippolyte Pradelles. He remained faithful to this salon and exhibited at least one painting each year, until his death in 1936. The painter Alfred Roll noticed him and helped him promote his artistic work. The two men became friends and Alfred Smith was Roll's executor after his death in 1919. In 1880 Smith took part in the Paris Salon, obtaining honorable mention and frequented Léonce Chabry's studio. He also became a teacher at the Bordeaux School of Fine Arts. In 1883, his painting Le Quai de Bacalan, le Soir was exhibited at the Paris Salon and he entered the studio of Amédée Baudit. In the years 1884-1890 Smith began to be recognized. He receives medals at the salons of Versailles, Nice, French artists, Universal Exhibition in Paris, etc. It was in 1886 that he was able to quit his job, his painting allowing him to live. In 1888, he obtained an award at the Paris Salon. The same year, he painted the Place de la Concorde Sous La Pluie (L'Averse) and in 1889, he won a bronze medal at the Paris Salon. He will obtain a bronze medal at the Universal Exhibition of 1900 in Paris. In 1894, he was named Knight of the Legion of Honor. On December 7, 1899, Alfred Smith married Catherine Philippine Poix in Lyon and in 1901 the couple moved to Paris. In 1912, thanks to his friends Paul Madeline and Eugène Alluaud, Alfred Smith discovered the Creuse valley. He is captivated by the landscapes; his style still changes and evolves towards Fauvism. He continued to paint the surroundings of Crozant until his death, becoming one of the representatives of the 1 / 3 anticSwiss 27/09/2021 13:12:33 http://www.anticswiss.com Crozant school. His wife Catherine died in September 1935, then Alfred Smith died in Paris on November 3, 1936. He was buried in Lyon with his companion. Alfred Smith adopted several styles during his career. He was first known for his mastery of atmospheric effects in his Bordeaux paintings. These paintings were executed in his studio. By tale, others were painted in the open air, which earned him the nickname "painter of the undergrowth". After a visit to Venice he adopted a rather impressionist style and from 1912, he evolved into Fauvism. Alfred Smith painted a series of four paintings representing the quays of Bordeaux under various metrological conditions. He also painted “modernity” and the activity of Bordeaux with a series of paintings where he still captures the scenes of rain and fog in Bordeaux. It was in the winter of 1896-1897 that he went for the first time to Venice, a city where he stayed many times. In 1896, Alfred Smith had a first “revelation” while staying in Venice: his Italian works were already marked by Impressionism. Smith became in fact one of the specialists of Italy between 1900 and 1910. Italian works are marked by an intensification of luminosity which struck the artist's contemporaries. In 1912 Alfred Smith arrived in Crozant, which was popularized by George Sand and attracted many artists from 1864 to 1920 including Claude Monet and Armand Guillaumin, guided in particular by Paul Madeline and Eugène Alluaud, his friends from the living room of modern society. These artists' colonies in residence in the Creuse constitute what is called the Crozant school, which stretches from the 1850s to the 1920s. From his arrival, and until his death in 1936, Alfred Smith will return each year to stay for several weeks, even in different seasons, in the gorges of the Creuse. His painting will evolve towards Fauvism. Works in the public collections Bordeaux, Musée des beaux-arts, Cognac, Musée d'art et d'histoire, Dijon, Musée des beaux-arts, Guéret, Musée de la Sénatorerie, Pau, Musée des beaux-arts, Paris, Musée d'Orsay, Rouen, Museum of Fine Arts, Savannah, Telfair Museum of Art, Venice, Museo Ca'Pesaro. https://www.anticswiss.com/en/fine-art-antiques/landscape-of-the-creuse-oil-on-canvas-signed-by-alfred-smith-24036 2 / 3 anticSwiss 27/09/2021 13:12:33 http://www.anticswiss.com Gallery 3 / 3 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org) Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org).
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