CHARRETON Victor French Painting 20th Century Auvergne Village Oil Signed certificate

CHARRETON Victor (1864/1936)

Village of Auvergne.

Oil on strong cardboard signed lower left.

36x45 cm

Certificate of authenticity.

Museums: Albi, Boston, Bourgoin, Carcassonne, Chambéry, Charleston, Clermont-Ferrand, Cleveland, Concord, Geneva, Grenoble, Lyon, Madrid, Metz, Narbonne, New-York, La Nouvelle Orleans, Paris (Musée d'Orsay, Musée du Petit Palais), Riom, Toulouse.

Victor Charreton was born in 1864 in Isère. He is a young man curious about the arts and his parents have the means to feed his tastes, which he refines towards painting. Nevertheless, he will turn to law studies, after which he opens his study at the Lyon Court of Appeal as an attorney. 

In 1894 Victor Charreton was married and exhibited his works for the first time at the Société lyonnaise des Beaux-Arts. This exhibition is a success and the art world is starting to talk about Victor Charreton.

It was at the beginning of the new century that he left his job as a solicitor. From an early age he never lost sight of his ambitions. At 38, he embraces his dream of becoming a painter. 

In 1903, he participated in the founding of the famous Salon d'Automne, with his new fame he saw his works exhibited hundreds of times in France and abroad. This fame earned him in 1914 to be decorated with the Legion of Honor by President Poincaré. 

Victor Charreton travels the French regions in search of light, movement, landscape. He paints, like many artists of his time, on the motif and puts his easel where his inspiration commands him to settle, then he paints. 

Victor Charreton paints with the melancholy of Impressionism and the ardor of Fauvism. He finds himself on the border of two worlds that he skilfully combines. He is the painter of snow, which he seeks to represent in all light and in all forms. 

His pictorial production makes him travel from Brittany to Provence, from Spain to the Maghreb, but the place of his fascination is certainly his wife's native land, Auvergne. 

Victor Charreton is passionate about these hilly, colorful, vast, and majestic landscapes offered by Auvergne, it is considered that two thirds of his work is devoted to Auvergne.  

Here, he will be the main instigator of the Murol school which will see the emergence of many artists and will shine through its accuracy and quality. 

Victor Charreton died in 1936 in Clermont-Ferrand and left behind him the memory of a flamboyant painting which seizes by its singularity. 

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