Anders Osterlind 1887-1960 Landscape At The Window. School Of Crozant, Gargilesse, Soutine Creuse

New superb oil/canvas by Anders Osterlind representing a landscape at the window in 1926, signed and dated lower right + titled and dated on the back several times. Size of the canvas alone without frame 97x66cm This is therefore a large canvas by Anders Osterlind from his transition period, 1926, the one where he begins to leave his Cézanne period, he paints here one of his emblematic subjects, a view taken from a window, he will make many of them at all times, here we can see houses including perhaps a mill, trees of course and bits of rather tormented sky; it could be Creuse, Lozère, the surroundings of Versailles where he was at this time. I no longer present Anders Osterlind, whom all my loyal customers know and rub shoulders with, as one of my favorite painters and almost permanent on the walls of my gallery, alongside Léon Detroy and Charles Bichet. He was one of the spearheads of the famous Crozant school, one of the last great painters, also close to the painters of Bréhat and the Paris school being very close to his friends Modigliani, Soutine or Kikoïne. Son of Allan Osterlind, great Swedish painter friend of Maufra, Anders was born in Lépaud in Creuse, his heart region, hence his attachment to the Crozant school. At the beginning he followed his father and was inspired by him, but he would very quickly detach himself from his influence by rubbing shoulders with Modigliani, Soutine or Kikoïne in Paris. But he would say that his lifelong master would be Cézanne. And indeed we see in his paintings between 1916 and 1925 that the master of Aix is very influential. The other region of Anders' heart will be Brittany, especially Bréhat and its surroundings, where his father lived for a long time. Anders will have 5 major periods in his work. A first until around 1916, rather impressionist, very close to his father, then a radical change, the period 1916/1925 very Cézanian therefore and already very powerful, then 1925/1932 where he begins to find his true style more and more expressionist with dominants of gray hence the so-called gray period, then 1932/1943 so-called green period noticeably close to the gray period if not the dominants which change, then 1943/1960, the death of his son Nanic (also a painter) occurs in 1943, there his painting hardens, in the spirit of Soutine, with compositions sometimes very deconstructed, with a very powerful touch and very rich in material, the color reappears and even more at the end of his life where his painting calms down with views of Provence or Tunisia in the 50s. He will set up his easel in many regions, Touraine, Center of the France, Alps, Pyrenees, Provence, Cantal, Charente, Orne and even in Tunisia at the end of his life; but Brittany and Creuse will be the regions that he will paint the most, and he is today one of the best painters of the Crozant school, thanks in particular to sumptuous views of Gargilesse. He will have exhibited in many salons and galleries, in France and abroad. An important exhibition started a few days ago at the Creuse Valley Museum in Eguzon, which I advise you to go see, it is also accompanied by a very interesting catalog published by Ardents Editeurs, where you will find some works very close to the one I am offering you. This canvas is in good original condition, cleaned very recently, delivered in its period frame which is quite tired, I obviously take this into account in my price. Work guaranteed authentic