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JEAN-FRANCIS AUBURTIN (1866-1930) RED MOON THROUGH THE PINES Gouache on paper Signed with the monogram lower left Gouache on paper; signed with the artist's monogram lower left 53 x 72 cm - 20 7/8 x 28 3/8 in. PROVENANCE Private collection, France. "I will not say anything about the decorations of Mr. Auburtin: they are known, they have covered the name of the young painter with glory. But there is in him a great artist too little known, a poet of nature. I noticed, in the seascapes and landscapes of Mr. Auburtin, an astonishing balance between qualities which, in most of them, seem to exclude each other. His drawing is of an admirable firmness and 'solidity': he makes the 'portrait', so to speak anatomical, of a rock, a tree, a ground; but he is not the naive slave of the outline. The light rushes, abundant and generous on all the objects that he paints: sometimes, it seems to annihilate 'the form'; but with a little attention, one finds, under the veil of the luminous coloring, the pure and chastened line." Jean Huré, "Causerie sur l'art pictural, M. Francis Auburtin", in "Angers-Artiste", 1903, p. 118.
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JEAN-FRANCIS AUBURTIN (1866-1930) RED MOON THROUGH THE PINES Gouache on paper Signed with the monogram lower left Gouache on paper; signed with the artist's monogram lower left 53 x 72 cm - 20 7/8 x 28 3/8 in. PROVENANCE Private collection, France. "I will not say anything about the decorations of Mr. Auburtin: they are known, they have covered the name of the young painter with glory. But there is in him a great artist too little known, a poet of nature. I noticed, in the seascapes and landscapes of Mr. Auburtin, an astonishing balance between qualities which, in most of them, seem to exclude each other. His drawing is of an admirable firmness and 'solidity': he makes the 'portrait', so to speak anatomical, of a rock, a tree, a ground; but he is not the naive slave of the outline. The light rushes, abundant and generous on all the objects that he paints: sometimes, it seems to annihilate 'the form'; but with a little attention, one finds, under the veil of the luminous coloring, the pure and chastened line." Jean Huré, "Causerie sur l'art pictural, M. Francis Auburtin", in "Angers-Artiste", 1903, p. 118.
