Rene Sautin
€2,600.00
Oil on cardboard “Rouen in gray weather”
Rare representation of Rouen seen from the Pont Pierre Corneille.
53.5 x 72 cm without frame
Very good condition
Signed lower right and dated 1931
Sold with its magnificent frame
THE ARTIST
René Sautin (Montfort/Risle 1881-Les Andelys 1968 Les Andelys )
A French painter from the Normandy school, René Sautin was essentially a landscape painter, from the Rouen School of Fine Arts.
After studying at Montfort sur Risle and Pont-Audemer, he entered the Beaux-Arts in Rouen in the studio of the painter Philippe Zacharie.
He returned to Paris where he spent a year in the Ferrier studio, after which he painted following the advice of the painter Albert Lebourg.
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He settled in Les Andelys in 1911, he was steeped in his Normandy land.
The banks of the Seine at Les Andelys were his favourite subject with his painter friends who regularly joined him, Manzanna Pissarro, Paul Signac, Maximilien Luce, André Derain, Armand Guillaumin, Henri Lebasque and Paul-Elie Gernez.
Around 1923, he abandoned the impressionist style for a calm and reasoned fauvism.
Having found balance in his means of expression from 1925, he reached his full potential in the 1950s. He is one of the rare Norman painters to describe his landscapes in such a personal way through their power, a certain controlled violence, a strong sensitivity.
The period of the Second World War deeply upset the artist. He never stopped painting the Seine, the quays of Petit-Andelys and the Château Gaillard , but each time it was a new work, his creative genius made him produce a new composition each time.
His technique evolved over time, the graphics became more marked, the shapes were outlined in deep black.
In the 1950s, René Sautin continued this trend of emphasizing his drawing.
Unfortunately, he gradually lost his sight. The artist compensated for his loss of vision with increasingly violent and vivid colours that he reproduced on large formats.
He stopped painting for good in 1964, four years before his death in 1968, at the age of 87.
His works are exhibited in the museums of Pont-Audemer, Vernon and Les Andelys.
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