Claude Émile SCHUFFENECKER (1851-1934)
Cliffs of Etretat, 1887
Oil on canvas
Signed and dated lower right
50 x 60,5 cm
Provenance :
Private collection in Paris
His academic training was acquired in the workshops of Carolus Duran (1872) and Baudry (1866). He evolved through contact with his friend Gauguin, who was also employed by the stockbroker Bertin, as well as with young artists who attended the Swiss Academy or the Colarossi Academy. His refusal of academicism and his attraction to modernity became clear. In 1884, he participated in the Salon des Indépendants and was one of the co-founders of the Société des Artistes Indépendants with Dubois Pillet, Angrand, Signac, Seurat and Redon. He also met Manet, Pissarro and Mallarmé. In 1886, he moved to Concarneau and met Emile Bernard, whom he introduced to Gauguin. In 1887, he stayed in Étretat and Yport. In 1889, he participated in the manifesto exhibition of the impressionist and synthetic group at the Volpini café.
Our painting testifies to the multiple innovations of the 1880s that Schuffenecker synthesizes in a superb Norman seaside: use of complementary colors and meteorological realism of Impressionism, dotted and dynamic strokes of Neo-Impressionism, flatness of the sea and curved and undulating lines of the cliffs and coastline that prefigured Pont-Aven and Synthetism.
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