Armand Guillaumin, French, 1841-1927- ‘Le Puy Barriou, Paysage de la Creuse, Aout, 1916'; pastel on laid paper, signed in pastel, titled in black chalk on the reverse, 45 x 61.5cm Provenance: Madame Rousso, Paris: Purchased from the Madame Rousso by Eardley Knollys in April 1954 for £12; Bonhams Knightsbridge, October 23, 2013 Lot 8; Private collection, London Note: This lot will be included in the Comite Guillaumin's (Dominique Fabiani, Jacques de La Beraudière and Stephanie Chardeau-Botteri) forthcoming second volume of the catalogue raisonne. A photo-certificate of authenticity from the Comite Guillaumin accompanies this lot. Armand Guillaumin studied at the Academie Suisse in the 1860s, where he met Paul Cézanne (1839-1906) and Camille Pissarro (1830-1903). He exhibited alongside his contemporaries in the Salon des Refuses in 1863 and in six of the eight renowned Impressionist exhibitions. In 1886 he befriended Vincent van Gogh (1853-1890) whose brother Theo van Gogh (1857-1891), the art dealer, began to sell the artist’s works. Depicted here is La Creuse, an area in central France named after the river Creuse that runs through it, it is a scene often repeated in Guillaumin’s oeuvre. La Creuze drew the attention of numerous other painters and a group soon formed, named Ecole de Crozant after a small village in the region called Crozant.

Please refer to department for condition reportIn a gilded and glazed frame - with window on the reverse to view inscription in black chalkunexamined out of framesigned lower leftunknown if stuck down or not paper slightly ruckled in frameminor surface dust on framecolours vibrant on paperin good general condition