André Barbier La côte d’Opale,
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André Barbier La côte d’Opale 1
André Barbier La côte d’Opale 2
André Barbier La côte d’Opale 3
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André Barbier La côte d’Opale dos

Andre Barbier

A vibrant, luminous seascape painted on the Opal Coast by Impressionist painter André Barbier, circa 1903.
This is a lively landscape, his brushwork taking us into the movement of this animated sea.

Oil on mahogany panel
signed lower left
dimensions: 37.5 x 46 cm
With frame: 60 x 68 cm
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” Barbier used a butterfly wing as a palette; Turner and Monet must have used a similar support for their own complexions ” Maurice Rheims of the Académie française.

The sea at Wimereux, a famous seaside resort on the Opal Coast.

This early work by André Barbier testifies to the painter’s best period: his twenties, when he met and worked with Claude Monet.
The painting dates from the time when the Barbier family made frequent visits to Wilmereux on the Opal Coast. The young painter’s touch is dynamic, lively and worked at the same time.

André Barbier, a sensitive Impressionist painter.

With his great sensitivity, André Barbier captures a fleeting moment in time. He plays with the clouds and the foam of the waves of a rough sea, on which he shimmers the reflections of the rosy sky of a late seaside day.
The palette is tender; he plays with the rosy blues with which he creates beautiful variations.

Biography

André Barbier moved to Paris, where he became a friend of Impressionist genius Claude Monet, Alain Marquet, Maurice Denis and Georges D’Espagnat…

From then on, he attended all the fairs: he donated his paintings to show them at the Salon d’Automne and the Salon des Tuileries. His career is long, he exhibited at the Salon des Indépendants from 1903 to 1938. He subsequently held solo exhibitions at the Galerie Durand-Ruel and the Katia Granoff Gallery.

He painted many landscapes of Paris and its close suburbs, Normandy, the Côte d’Azur and Italy.

He is renowned for his generous, altruistic character. His open mind is passionate about music, astronomy and photography.

His technique proves his intimate understanding of the subtleties of Impressionism and his personal sensitivity to the endless play of light.

Bibliography

– Gérard Schurr, Pierre Cabane, Dictionnaire des petits maîtres de la peinture, 1820-1920, t. II, Paris, Editions of the amateur, 1996
– Bénézit, 1924
– Édouard-Joseph, Dictionnaire biographique des artistes contemporains, tome 1, A-E, Art & Édition, 1930
– L’Astronomie, vol. 85, 1971, p. 106 (obituary)
– Ghislaine Bretonniere-Bernaudin, André Barbier: 1883-1970, Ed. SFRT, 1990

Museums

– Musée d’Orsay, center national des arts plastiques et fond municipal d’art contemporain de la ville de Paris

In France

– Musée de Bagnols-sur-Cèze
– Musée des beaux-arts d’Orléans
– Musée d’art et d’histoire de Lisieux,
– Musée Alphonse-Georges Poulain de Vernon

Source

– https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/André_Barbier_(painter)