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French School MastersFrench school Landscape Autumn Signed oil painting1930-1939
1930-1939
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About the Item
➡️ Autumn Landscape ⬅️
⏩It is signed Martin Lamotte⏪
Probably Henri Martin Lamotte
⭐Medium:⭐ Oil on canvas
⭐Technique: ⭐Impasto painting with expressive brushwork.
⭐Size:⭐55x64cm / 21.7x25.2 inch
⭐Date: There is a stamp on the back (Morin and Janet). This canvas manufacturing company operated from 1913 to 1950. According to his activity between 1920-1940. This painting is from 1930-1939 ⭐
⭐Condition : ⭐ Good condition. NO cracks. The canvas has been re-stretched and secured with staples.
⭐Provenance:⭐ Private collection - France.
⭐Shipping:⭐ from France is fast 4-6 days with Fedex / DHL
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☀️☀️Artist Biography ☀️☀️
Henri-Martin Lamotte was a French painter born in Montmartre in 1899 and died in Leuville-sur-Orge in 1967. From a very young age, he showed exceptional talent for drawing. He refined his skills by working in oil painting, watercolor, sculpture, and molding through evening courses. Working during the first half of the 20th century, Lamotte was part of the continuation of French landscape painting traditions that bridged academic training with more modern sensibilities.
Though not as widely known as major academic painters of his era, Lamotte's work has appeared at auction, with particular recognition for his watercolors and gouaches. His oeuvre demonstrates the characteristics of an artist trained in traditional methods who maintained a personal vision of the French landscape.
☀️☀️Subject Matter and Composition☀️☀️
This oil painting captures a quintessentially French autumn landscape featuring a sinuous waterway bordered by a magnificent allée of trees displaying their full seasonal glory. The composition employs a strong diagonal orientation, with the row of trees creating a powerful visual rhythm that draws the viewer's eye from the immediate foreground deep into the pictorial space. This diagonal arrangement is a classical compositional device that creates dynamic movement and spatial depth.
The painting is structured in distinct horizontal bands that recede into space: the immediate foreground with its grassy bank, the sinuous curve of the water body, the tree-lined path, and the distant horizon with its gentle rolling hills. This layered construction creates convincing atmospheric perspective and invites the viewer to imaginatively walk along the tree-lined path.
A particularly effective element is the way the trees frame the composition on the left while opening to reveal a glimpse of distant buildings with red roofs on the right middle ground. This architectural element provides a human scale reference and suggests a rural or semi-rural setting in the French countryside, possibly in the Île-de-France region where Lamotte lived and worked. The buildings add narrative interest, they suggest human habitation and activity beyond the immediate natural scene.
☀️☀️Color Palette and Seasonal Atmosphere☀️☀️
The painting's most striking feature is its exuberant celebration of autumn color. The palette is dominated by warm tones, brilliant yellows, rich oranges, coral pinks, and touches of burnt sienna, that capture the incandescent quality of deciduous foliage at peak autumn color. These warm hues are skillfully modulated, with individual trees showing subtle variations in tone that suggest different species or varying stages of color change.
Lamotte demonstrates sensitivity to color harmony by balancing these warm tones with cooler passages. The water is rendered in muted blue-greens that reflect both sky and surrounding foliage, creating chromatic unity. The distant hills fade into soft purple-grays, employing aerial perspective to push them convincingly into the background. The sky is painted in delicate lavender-grays with touches of pale blue, suggesting either overcast conditions or the soft light of early morning or late afternoon.
This color orchestration creates a particular atmospheric quality, there's a sense of crisp autumn air, of that specific light quality when the sun sits lower in the sky and daylight takes on a golden cast. The overall effect is both vibrant and harmonious, celebrating seasonal transformation without becoming garish or overwrought.
☀️☀️Technical Execution and Brushwork☀️☀️
The painting demonstrates solid technical competence reflecting Lamotte's training in multiple media including oil painting, watercolor, and his understanding of form from his sculptural work. The artist employs varied brushwork appropriate to different elements: relatively smooth, blended passages in the sky and distant hills contrast with more vigorous, expressive strokes in the foliage and foreground vegetation.
The trees are rendered with a modified post-impressionistic technique, individual brush strokes are visible and contribute to the overall texture, but they maintain representational clarity. The artist balances between observation and interpretation, creating foliage masses that read as coherent volumes while still showing the energetic touch of the brush.
The water is handled with particular skill, with horizontal strokes that suggest its reflective surface while also conveying gentle movement. Lamotte includes subtle reflections of the trees and sky, though these are understated rather than mirror-like, which is appropriate for water with even slight movement.
The painting shows evidence of direct observation, Lamotte clearly understands how trees grow, how light affects color, and how to create convincing spatial recession. His training in evening courses and his multi-disciplinary approach to art (painting, watercolor, sculpture) gave him a comprehensive understanding of form and space that is evident in this work.
☀️☀️Spatial Construction and Perspective☀️☀️
The painting demonstrates competent handling of linear and atmospheric perspective. The tree trunks diminish convincingly in size as they recede, and their spacing creates a rhythmic progression into depth. The path they border narrows according to perspectival logic, guiding the eye to a vanishing point deep in the composition.
Atmospheric perspective is well executed: colors become cooler and less saturated with distance, edges soften, and detail diminishes. The foreground trees show individual branches and texture, while the distant trees become softer masses. The hills on the horizon are rendered in pale, cool tones that push them far back in space.
The curve of the waterway is particularly effective spatially, it creates a visual pathway that leads the eye through the composition while also adding dynamic interest. Lamotte has carefully observed how water bodies serpentine through landscapes, and this naturalistic detail adds authenticity to the scene.
☀️☀️Stylistic Context and Influences☀️☀️
Born in Montmartre in 1899, Lamotte came of age artistically during a fascinating period of French art history. The Impressionist and Post-Impressionist revolutions were already established history, and young artists were finding ways to incorporate these lessons while maintaining connection to older traditions. This work shows the influence of Post-Impressionism in its attention to light effects and its relatively loose, visible brushwork, but it's more conservative than pure Impressionism in maintaining clearer definition of forms and more conventional spatial construction.
The painting recalls the plein-air tradition, suggesting direct observation from nature or at least careful study of natural phenomena. There's a freshness to the color and light that suggests Lamotte worked outdoors or sought to capture the immediacy of outdoor experience. His Montmartre origins would have connected him to the rich tradition of French landscape painting, and his work reflects this heritage.
The subject matter, an idealized rural landscape with dramatic seasonal color, places it within the broader category of landscape painting that remained popular throughout the early-to-mid 20th century. Such works appealed to collectors who wanted recognizable, beautiful scenes of nature that incorporated modern painterly techniques while remaining accessible.
☀️☀️Emotional Tone and Aesthetic Appeal☀️☀️
The painting radiates a sense of peace and gentle melancholy characteristic of autumn imagery. There's a contemplative quality to the scene, the path bordered by trees invites solitary walking and reflection. The brilliant foliage suggests nature's final flourish before winter dormancy, a theme that has resonated with artists and viewers for centuries.
The work's emotional register is one of quiet appreciation rather than dramatic intensity. This is not nature as sublime or threatening, but nature as beautiful, companionable, and worthy of sustained attention. The painting invites the viewer to pause, to look, to appreciate the changing seasons and the beauty of the natural world.
There's also a nostalgic quality to the work, both in its subject matter (the traditional French landscape with its tree-lined path) and in its approach (which honors earlier modes of representation while incorporating modern sensibilities). This quality would have particular poignancy for French viewers in the mid-20th century, as traditional rural landscapes were increasingly transformed by modernization.
☀️☀️Historical Context: France 1899-1967☀️☀️
Lamotte's lifetime (1899-1967) spanned some of the most tumultuous decades in French history. Born at the end of the Belle Époque, he lived through both World Wars, the interwar period, and the dramatic changes of post-war France. His landscape paintings can be seen as offering visual refuge, representations of an enduring, peaceful France amid the chaos of the 20th century.
His choice to focus on traditional French landscapes rather than embrace radical modernism reflects a significant strand of French art in this period. While the avant-garde pursued cubism, surrealism, and abstract art, many artists continued working in representational modes, serving an audience that valued beauty, craftsmanship, and connection to place.
☀️☀️Technical Observations☀️☀️
The painting demonstrates Lamotte's multi-disciplinary training. His understanding of form, undoubtedly enhanced by his sculptural work, is evident in how he constructs the three-dimensional space and gives volume to the tree forms. His experience with watercolor is visible in the freshness of his color application and his ability to suggest atmospheric effects.
The work appears to be painted on canvas with confident, direct application. The surface shows appropriate variation in paint handling, thicker applications in areas of emphasis, thinner passages in atmospheric distance. This suggests an artist comfortable with his medium and working with assurance.
- Creator:French School Masters (French)
- Creation Year:1930-1939
- Dimensions:Height: 21.26 in (54 cm)Width: 25.6 in (65 cm)Depth: 0.79 in (2 cm)
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- Gallery Location:Zofingen, CH
- Reference Number:Seller: Martin Lamotte1stDibs: LU2203217473962
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