1906 (ca.), Armand Guillaumin, Saint-Palais -- Auckland Art Gallery
From the gallery label:
Purples, pinks and lilacs jostle against orange-browns and touches of pale blue to delineate the sea-worn rocky shores of the Atlantic coast observed under harsh southern sunlight. An artist whose life and death dates almost exactly match those of Claude Monet (1840-1926), the Impressionist Armand Guillaumin is virtually unknown today, although he influenced many of the artists in this room. His almost lurid colourism, which he adopted from 1886 at the same time as his friend Vincent van Gogh (1853-1890), anticipated the high-keyed paintings of the Fauves, such as André Derain (1880-1954) and Henri Matisse (1869-1954), by over a decade. Guillaumin had staunch admirers among the leading dealers and champions of Impressionism, including the dealer Paul Durand-Ruel (1831-1922), who owned this painting.
1906 (ca.), Armand Guillaumin, Saint-Palais -- Auckland Art Gallery
From the gallery label:
Purples, pinks and lilacs jostle against orange-browns and touches of pale blue to delineate the sea-worn rocky shores of the Atlantic coast observed under harsh southern sunlight. An artist whose life and death dates almost exactly match those of Claude Monet (1840-1926), the Impressionist Armand Guillaumin is virtually unknown today, although he influenced many of the artists in this room. His almost lurid colourism, which he adopted from 1886 at the same time as his friend Vincent van Gogh (1853-1890), anticipated the high-keyed paintings of the Fauves, such as André Derain (1880-1954) and Henri Matisse (1869-1954), by over a decade. Guillaumin had staunch admirers among the leading dealers and champions of Impressionism, including the dealer Paul Durand-Ruel (1831-1922), who owned this painting.