Code: 5068
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A beautiful early 20th century French impressionist oil on canvas depicting a landscape in Provence, by Auguste Roure.
Excellent quality work by this popular Avignon born artist who was known as the painter of the Garrigue, which we see superbly depicted in our painting.
Signed lower right and prresented in a French frame.
Artist: Auguste Roure (French, 1878-1936)
Title: Provence Landscape
Medium: Oil on canvas
Size: 19 x 28 inches (49 x 71 cm) including the frame
Auguste Roure was born in Avignon to a modest family. The death of his father forced him to enter as an apprentice engraver in a printing press where he revealed his artistic talents.
His older brother had him admitted to the School of Fine Arts in Avignon. There he became a pupil of the director Pierre Grivolas who quickly appointed him professor. This promotion allows the young man to be able to marry and leave the printing press.
Now able to live from his painting, he traveled the Vaucluse by bicycle during his leisure time, easel on his back. It was during these excursions that he painted his canvas Le Ventoux seen from the heights of Malaucène, which is kept in the Palais du Roure in Avignon. When he leaves the scrubland, he joins the Var coast and the seaside, which thus became his two other favourite pictorial themes.
He exhibited at the Roche gallery in Marseille and in the Parisian Salons. He takes part in regional exhibitions and from 1908 attends the Salon des Indépendants in Paris.
Auguste Roure led an international career, exhibiting in galleries in Tokyo and New York, as well as in Geneva, London, Melbourne. Today we find his works at the Calvet Museum in Avignon and in Nîmes. He will be nicknamed the painter of the Garrigue (Mediterranean scrubland).
