Lucien Seevagen (1887-1959), View Of Kerpont In Bréhat, Marine, Oil On Cardboard Canvas

Lucien SEEVAGEN
Chaumont-en-Bassigny 1887 - Île-de-Bréhat 1959

View from Kerpont to Bréhat
Oil on cardboard canvas
Signed lower right
Located on the back "Kerpont le jour, Bréhat"
34,5 x 27cm

   Lucien Seevagen trained at the School of Decorative Arts in Paris, then at the workshop of Eugène Charvot. He began with engraving, particularly etching, before fully blossoming into painting. From 1907, he exhibited at the Salon des Artistes français, then at the Salon des Indépendants and at the Salon d'Automne. From the 1910s, his style moved towards the application of solid colors and the use of rings - like our work -, thus indicating his assimilation of the pictorial models developed a few years earlier in Pont-Aven . The Marcel-Bernheim gallery often presents its works at 18, avenue Matignon, notably in January 1920 - the exhibition being the subject of a catalogue.

   Lucien Seevagen arrives to convalesce on the island of Bréhat after the First World War, during which he was gassed. In 1920, while maintaining a workshop in Montparnasse at 242, boulevard Raspail, the painter and his wife settled permanently in Brittany. His workshop, located above Kerpont, offers him one of the most beautiful views of the island of Bréhat, as evidenced by our painting. Many of the artist's works are in our public collections, such as the painting of La Plage du Ris à Douarnenez kept at the Quimper Museum, which remains in the same marine style as our painting with large flat areas and everything small boats suggested by touches of color.