Victor Vignon (1847-1909) - Still Life With Apples And Tablecloth, Circa 1890

Victor Vignon (1847-1909)
Still Life With Apples And A Tablecloth, Circa 1890
Oil on canvas
25 x 33 cm
43 x 50 cm with its frame
Signed lower left

Pupil of Camille Corot, advised by Adolphe-Félix Cals, Vignon first worked in Clamart, then in Bougival, then in La Celle-Saint-Cloud where he produced Saulaie in Bougival (1877), Le Chemin de laplaine in Bougival and La Route de la Jonchère in La Celle-Saint- Cloud1. He then moved to Pontoise, then to Jouy-le-Comte. Around 1878-1880, we find him in Auvers-sur-Oise in the company of Camille Pissarro, Armand Guillaumin and Paul Cézanne, where he painted subjects identical to theirs: Chemin de Chaponval (1881), La Côte Saint-Nicolas in Auvers ( 1882), Huts at Auvers (1883). Between 1880 and 1886 he exhibited in particular at the Exhibitions of Impressionist painters alongside, among others, Mary Cassat, Degas, Forain, Gauguin, Guillaumin, Berthe Morisot, Pissarro, Raffaelli, Rouart, Zandomeneghi... Vignon was very close to Théo and Vincent van Gogh, Doctor Paul Gachet, Auguste Renoir, Caillebotte, Monet, Degas or even Sisley In 1900 it was thanks to Doctor Viau that one of his paintings appeared at the 1900 Universal Exhibition. In 1903, an exhibition was organized for helping him. Auguste Renoir advises Durand-Ruel to choose works from among his small formats. In 1910, it was Berthe Morisot's daughter, Julie Manet-Rouart, who obtained a painting from Renoir for the sale organized in favor of Madame Veuve Vignon. Among the great collectors owning works by Victor Vignon: Georges Viau, whose collection was dispersed in 1907 and 1909, MF Stumpf, whose collections were dispersed in 1906, revealing some fifteen paintings by the artist, as well as Roger Marx who has three paintings by Vignon in his collection. Today the majority of Victor Vignon's paintings are in private collections, only a few paintings being in public collections.