Albert Joseph (1868-1952) Hoarfrost In Limousin 1923. School Of Crozant, Detroy, Gauguin

1st superb canvas of a series of three by Albert Joseph, I titled this one white frost in Limousin 1923, signed and dated lower right. Size of the canvas alone 45x81cm and 57x92cm including frame. This is therefore a large and magnificent post-impressionist composition with a fauve tendency by Albert Joseph, he paints here a white frost in Limousin in 1923, I think it could be the pond of Peyrat le Château where he painted many times. Faithful to this period of maturity, 1923, the one where he would send many paintings to Parisian salons, Joseph uses his definitive touch, powerful with large flat areas and of course his inimitable palette with his famous greens, here embellished with blues, purples, even a small touch of red on the mill, in short, very very beautiful Joseph. These three paintings being of the same formats, identical subjects and dates, I think that they could be either works chosen for a salon, or a specific order. I no longer present Albert Joseph, an essential painter of the Creuse valley, a painter with a strong character, who rubbed shoulders with many great painters such as Guillaumin or Gauguin, he will be very close to the latter but will also move away from him quickly following a falling out, they will even return paintings exchanged some time earlier. Born in 1868 in Auteuil, Albert Joseph began an artistic career after leaving high school, joining the Académie Julian in 1887. There he rubbed shoulders with Henri Matisse, Édouard Vuillard, Pierre Bonnard and Maurice Denis. Two years later he made long journeys through England, Italy and Algeria where he lived with desert nomads in the company of his friend the painter René Juste. He really began painting at the age of 32, frequenting Barbizon and Brittany. He exhibited for the first time in 1901 at the Salon des artistes français before attending the Salon des indépendants. In 1903 he sent his first painting taken in the Creuse valley, which was pleasantly acclaimed by critics. Then, he went to the shores of the Mediterranean, to Banyuls, Cassis, Avignon, or Collioure then frequented by Léon Detroy. There he studied in particular the influence of light on water. From 1920, he spent his summers in Limousin, in Eymoutiers, Peyrat-le-Château, La Jonchère and Crozant where he frequented Eugène Alluaud and Paul Madeline. In contact with the Creuse, his painting became darker and more rigorous. He painted there until the end of his life after retiring to La Jonchère between 1939 and 1945. He died in 1952 after a solitary end of career, abandoning all commercial approach, selling only to friends or museums. This canvas is on its original frame, in perfect condition, a little cleaning to be expected, delivered in a pretty original gilded frame. Work guaranteed authentic