JEAN-FRANCIS AUBURTIN (1866-1930) RED MOON THROUGH... Lot 4

JEAN-FRANCIS AUBURTIN (1866-1930) RED MOON THROUGH THE PINES Gouache on paper Signed with the monogram lower left Gouache and on paper; signed with the artist's monogram lower left 53 X 72 CM - 20 7/8 X 28 3/8 IN. PROVENANCE Private collection, France. "I will not say anything about Mr. Auburtin's decorations: they are well known, they have covered the young painter's name with glory. But there is in him a great artist too little known, a poet of nature. I have noticed, in Mr. Auburtin's seascapes and landscapes, an astonishing balance between qualities which, in most of them, seem to exclude each other. His drawing is of an admirable firmness and 'solidity': he 'portrays', as it were anatomically, a rock, a tree, a piece of land; but he is not the naive slave of contour. Light rushes in, abundant and generous on all the objects he paints: sometimes it seems to annihilate 'the form'; but with a little attention, one finds, under the veil of luminous colouring, the pure and chastened line." Jean Huré, "Causerie sur l'art pictural, M. Francis Auburtin", in "Angers-Artiste", 1903, p. 118.