Eugene Roy Witten (1920-2004), Fugitive Vision XV

Great delicacy for this "Figurative Vision Romanet 30, 32 and 34 rue de Seine, 75006 Paris" Very good state of conservation Ref. I_230 Painter & lithographer, Eugène Roy Witten born in 1920 in New York is a Francophile artist. Present in France in 1940, he drew inspiration from the Impressionists, Whistler, Cézanne, Seurat and Degas. He quickly abandoned studio work to paint outdoors. He returned to New York and opened his workshop in East Greenwich Village while creating a framing business to support himself. Exhibiting with various groups in New York, he was noticed by the Academy of Design which acquired one of his paintings. The artist works on the representation of landscapes. From 1954 to 1955, as a newlywed, he stayed in Aix-en-Provence, following in the footsteps of Cézanne. This period is characterized by large landscapes in blue and orange tones. From the 1960s, Witten settled in the Shushan countryside, north of New York. His works become more abstract, strongly inspired by winter landscapes with delicate tones. In 1965, in Boston, he was dazzled by the work of the German artist Julius Bissier (1893-1965). The work that we present here is strongly inspired by it. From these years and during the following decade, he became known through exhibitions in galleries in New York and Boston. It was from the 1970s and for a period of thirty years that he began a collaboration with the Galerie Romanet, rue de Seine in Paris. to which the label present on our work testifies. The love of nature, his passion for classical music and the chords of very soft nuances punctuated with more lively accents were constant elements of his work. He died in 2004 in the United States. Following his last wishes, his ashes were scattered in France on the Montagne Sainte-Victoire that he loved so much.