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Henri Martin
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Description
- Henri Martin
- Morning in Labastide-du-Vert
- indistinctly signed H. Martin lower right
- oil on canvas
- 64.5 by 85.5cm., 25½ by 33½in.
Provenance
Private Collection, France
Catalogue Note
Painted circa 1920. The present work is painted from the terrasse at Marquayrol, Henri Martin's home overlooking the village of Labastide-du-Vert in South West France, and is a very good example of the type of work he produced after 1900.
Henri Martin was from Toulouse, where he studied as a student, and where he returned to after further study in both Paris and Rome. He regularly exhibited at the annual Paris Salon, his work distinguished by its pointillist style and symbolist mood. In like manner Martin also worked on large-scale decorative commissions including a series of decorative panels for the Salle des Illustrés in the Capitole of Toulouse, and murals for the new Hôtel de Ville in Paris (1895–6). As his reputation grew, however, he increasingly took to recording the countryside around where he lived in Labastide-du-Vert near Toulouse, capturing the areas’s distinctive light in an impressionistic manner.
Henri Martin was from Toulouse, where he studied as a student, and where he returned to after further study in both Paris and Rome. He regularly exhibited at the annual Paris Salon, his work distinguished by its pointillist style and symbolist mood. In like manner Martin also worked on large-scale decorative commissions including a series of decorative panels for the Salle des Illustrés in the Capitole of Toulouse, and murals for the new Hôtel de Ville in Paris (1895–6). As his reputation grew, however, he increasingly took to recording the countryside around where he lived in Labastide-du-Vert near Toulouse, capturing the areas’s distinctive light in an impressionistic manner.