Oil On Canvas, Country Landscape By Joseph Bernard Artigue

Joseph Bernard ARTIGUE (1859-1936)
French painter, friend of the great post-impressionist Henri Martin, he can be classified in the category of pointillist painters.

our canvas was designed as a triptych (in three parts). It is a completed sketch.

"We can say that towards the beginning of the 20th century, B.-J. Artigue in the company of Emile Bernard, Henri Martin, Seurat, Signac, was one of the forty main French artists received throughout the world, an artist among the most significant of its time. " (René Rouquier, poet).

He was a pupil of Jean-Paul Laurens in Paris.
Then worked mainly in the Toulouse region. He exhibited at the Salon des Artistes Français since 1895 and received a mention in 1903.
He also appeared at the Salon des Indépendants a few years before the First World War, when he exhibited in Russia, at the request, it is said of the Empress.