Narcisse Guilbert Art

Signed post impressionist figure in landscape oil on canvas circa 1930 by French painter Narcisse Guilbert. The work depicts a lone man walking in the afternoon sun up a grassy path through fields of long grass and vast green trees and bushes in La Vallee d'Antifer. A beautlfully brushed and coloured piece. Signed: Signed lower left Dimensions: Framed: 27"x35" Unframed: 18"x26" Provenance: Arthur Tooth & Sons Ltd - London (original exhibition labels verso) The son of a joiner, Narcisse Guilbert overcame considerable personal difficulties to enrol, aged 17, at the École des Beaux-Arts in Rouen, as a pupil of Zacharie. He won the Rouen academy's Prix Pellecat in 1910, and the resulting bursary enabled him to travel and discover the landscapes of the Breton coast. In 1907, he was a founder-exhibitor with the Société des Artistes Rouennais; he held his first solo show in Rouen in 1908. He exhibited in Paris only once during his lifetime, in 1920. A retrospective of his work was organised by André Watteau in 1969. Guilbert's work has featured in two themed exhibitions on Impressionism: The Rouen School: Seven Impressionist Painters, at the Château d'Hauterives, 1992; and Around Impressionism: Nineteen Painters from the School of Normandy ( Autour de l'Impressionnisme: dix-neuf peintres de l'École Normande), at the Maison des Arts in Antony, in 2003. Guilbert was a member of a group of Rouen painters, led by Albert Lebourg and Pierre Dumont...

Signed “Guilbert” (lower right); also inscribed en verso Oil on canvas Inondation is a significant landscape by French Post-Impressionist Narcisse Guilbert, dealing with the impacts...

Signed lower right "Guilbert" and painted circa 1915. Narcisse Guilbert first studied at Rouen's Ecole des Beaux-Arts under Albert Lebourg before attending the Academie Libre. In ...