Robert Pinchon - La Côte Ste-catherine - Post-impressionism - School Of Rouen

The Sainte-Catherine coast, an iconic site in Rouen for painters, which Robert Pinchon painted over and over again. Monet said of him “An astonishing touch serving a surprising eye”.

I warmly thank Anne-Marie Letailleur, expert-specialist from the “School of Rouen” and holder of the moral rights, for having authenticated the work. This painting, unsigned, is accompanied by its certificate and will be included under No. 1175 in Robert Pinchon's current catalog raisonnée.

With a beautiful impressionist touch, he represents this landscape at the Mount in the diffused light of a morning mist. In a blue-green tone with mauve highlights, the imposing silhouette leaning against the Seine, dominates a foreground animated by a moored barge and a hay cart in intense brick and ocher colors.

Robert Pinchon was born on July 1, 1886 in Rouen and died on January 9, 1943 in Bois-Guillaume.
He was attracted to painting at a very young age. While taking classes at the School of Fine Arts in Rouen, he exhibited his first paintings in 1900, at the age of 14.
In 1907, he founded, alongside Pierre Dumont, the Thirty group which brought together a number of artists from the Parisian avant-garde, such as Henri Matisse, André Derain, Raoul Dufy and Maurice de Vlaminck, whose artistic research he shared.
The art of Robert-Antoine Pinchon is indeed closer to the research carried out by the Fauve artists in his first period, thanks to the great luminism and the gleam of his palette. His art will never deviate towards cubism, favoring a figurative aesthetic very marked by post-impressionism which he considers, unlike other avant-garde artists he meets, as an achievement.
Robert Pinchon will take part in numerous exhibitions and his works are present in numerous museums and private collections.

Oil on linen canvas in perfect condition measuring: 19,3 x 28,3 Inches at sight and 27,5 x 36,6 Inches with its wooden and gilded stucco frame in average condition.