Jean-Francis AUBURTIN (1866-1930) - Lot 176

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Jean-Francis AUBURTIN (1866-1930) - Lot 176
Jean-Francis AUBURTIN (1866-1930) Pines in the bay of Cavalaire at dusk Gouache and pastel on rag paper Monogrammed lower right, signed and located on back 24 x 73 cm Exhibition: Martigues, Musée Ziem, Ecumes & Rivages de la méditerranée - Francis Auburtin, 2010 Over the past twenty years, numerous exhibitions have brought Jean-Francis Auburtin's work back into the limelight. In 2019 in particular, the Musée des Impressionnismes de Giverny's fine exhibition Monet-Auburtin une rencontre artistique, shows the dialogue between the two artists. The museum now holds two fine paintings by Auburtin: Parc de pêche à Pourville and Les rayons jaunes aux falaises de Mordal. Although Auburtin follows in his elder's footsteps, there is no imitation of the former by the latter. Motifs and framing are often identical, but the support, medium and manner are different. The coarse, coarse-grained mill rag paper favors the matte aspect of the gouache he favors, with the occasional small touch of pastel. However, in Normandy between 1897 and 1898, he produced a series of watercolors in Japanese style, framed in Indian ink and annotated day by day like a small diary. Auburtin planted his easel in front of the most beautiful motifs on the Normandy coast: Etretat, Pourville, Dieppe and, of course, Varengeville, where he lived for over 10 years in his house "La Mazurie", built by his architect brother Jean-Marcel, designer of numerous seaside villas in Houlgate and the famous Villa Ephrussi de Rothschild in Saint-Jean-Cap-Ferrat. The "Symbolist of the Sea" tirelessly surveyed the customs paths along the French coast, taking refuge in the customs hut at Varengeville near the Gorge du petit Ailly. The same Varengeville to which Monet returned in 1897-1898 to draw inspiration from the same marine horizons... Auburtin excelled at capturing variations in light, with stormy skies or morning mists in celadon tones, and the blaze of sunsets, views often taken from the small marine cemetery of the Varengeville church facing the Dieppe cliffs, as in the present canvas.
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