Léon Lehmann, "at The Water's Edge", Around 1900

Léon Lehmann is a French painter and draftsman, a former student of Gustave Moreau's workshop where he rubbed shoulders with Matisse, Marquet and Rouault, whose great friend he became. First passionate about military subjects in his youth, he was then influenced by the post-impressionist, Fauvist and Cézanian avant-garde, then turned after the First World War towards a very personal and original painting which would make him successful in the good Parisian galleries (B.Weill, Druet, Blot, Bernheim-Jeune, K.Granoff...). His works are present in around twenty museums in France and abroad. The work we are presenting is a small landscape where we feel the influence of Cézanne. It is titled and marked with the mint stamp on the back.