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Henry MoretPaysage à la Chaumière Bretonne, circa 1910Oil on canvas23 ¾ x 29 inches
Framed: 32 ¼ x 37 ½ inches
Signed lower left: Henry Moret
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Henry MoretGros Temps, 1898Oil on canvas25 1/2 x 36 1/4 inches
Framed: 34 x 45 inchesAccompanied by a photo-certificate of authenticity from Jean-Yves Rolland dated 13 September 2018. This work will be included in the artist’s catalogue raisonné.Signed and dated lower right: -Henry Moret- / -98-
Overview
Moret resided and worked in Brittany alongside Gauguin and the Pont-Aven artists. Throughout his career, Moret rarely left this region of France. In 1889 he had stayed at Marie Poupée’s Inn in Le Pouldu along with Gauguin, who had a great influence on his work. Coastal views where the dominant theme of his work beginning in 1890 when he worked in the Lorient area. In 1895 he signed an agreement with distinguished art dealer Durand-Ruel, which freed him from financial worries. That same year Gauguin left Pont Aven. These events signaled a change in Moret’s style and within the Impressionistic realm his canvases shifted toward the new theories of the Synthetist movement. Moret rarely restrained himself with color or limited himself to a tonal palette. Light played a role in his work but usually as to how much it intensified his color use.
After his death in 1913, Durand-Ruel wrote “…he occupies a unique place in the evolution of art at the end of the nineteenth century and the beginning of the twentieth century, as has been able to fuse together two fundamentally opposing styles: the Synthetism of Pont-Aven and Impressionism.”
Museums and Public Collections
Musée de Reins, France
Musée du Petit-Palais, Geneva, Switzerland
Musée d’Orsay, Paris, France
Durand-Ruel Collection, France
Musée National des Douanes, France