POINT Armand Le chemin du village Oil on canvas signed

POINT Armand (1860/1932)
The village path.
Oil on canvas signed and dated 1916 lower left.
50x61 cm

Armand POINT, 1861 / 1932, (French, of Spanish origin).

Painter, engraver.

He took drawing lessons from Auguste Clément Herst. Armand Point began by painting paintings with a naturalistic aesthetic, then in 1877, he left college and went to Algeria (French) to draw the landscapes of his native land. Seduced by North Africa, he painted Orientalist genre subjects. He returned to Paris in 1888, where he was already known for his naturalist works sent to the Salon from 1882. At this time, the desire and passion awakened in him to possess all the techniques to develop his project of marrying art and poetry. In 1890, he moved to Marlotte in the forest of Fontainebleau. In May 1893 he resourced himself among the Italian primitives and henceforth advocated an art under the auspices of tradition. Having reconstituted an egg painting process, he combined this scholarly technique with his symbolist inspiration. His friend the painter Mario Pérouse (1880-1958) introduced him to the Murol School, a place where he came to paint 1919, 1921, 1923 and 1924, producing works absolutely different from his previous paintings.

Museums: Bourron-Marlotte, Gray, Murol, Paris, Toulouse.

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