Jean-Francis AUBURTIN (1866-1930) - Lot 131

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Jean-Francis AUBURTIN (1866-1930) - Lot 131
Jean-Francis AUBURTIN (1866-1930) Cliffs at Etretat, 1899 Oil on canvas. Monogrammed and dated lower left. Chalk inscription Manneporte Etretat on stretcher. 60 x 92 cm We would like to thank Madame Francine Quentin, a specialist on the artist, for confirming the authenticity of this work and providing us with valuable information on the artist and his work. Madame Quentin will be pleased to provide the purchaser with a certificate. A true "portraitist of nature", Auburtin painted Normandy at Etretat from 1898, then at Varengeville. On January 15, 1907, Auburtin and his wife bought a plot of land there. The artist's brother-in-law, a renowned Parisian architect, took charge of building the house and the artist's adjoining studio. Auburtin surveys the high cliffs in search of new motifs. He favors soft tones and gradual gradations of value, and his work is never far removed from Japanese prints, of which he is a fervent collector. The cliffs of Etretat, Varengeville and Dieppe offer what Auburtin loved best: the meeting of water and land, the contrasts between vertical rock faces and the vast expanse of sea as far as the eye can see. Our unpublished work is dated 1899. It can be compared with works by Monet from the same period and on the same subject (Claude Monet (1840-1924) Étretat, La Manneporte, reflets sur l'eau, 1885).
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