Ferdinand du Puigaudeau (1864-1930) Oil on canvas... Lot 12

Ferdinand du Puigaudeau (1864-1930) Oil on canvas signed lower right 33 x 41 cm Bibliography: > Antoine Laurentin, Catalogue raisonné des peintures de Ferdinand du Puigaudeau (1864-1930), tome II, éditions Antoine Laurentin, Paris, 2023, reproduced p. 245 as n°II-359 Condition report: Framed, framed French painter who received a typical nineteenth-century academic education, but quickly freed himself from all too strict teachings. Inspired by the Old Masters, notably Caravaggio, light plays a central role in his work. A friend of Charles Laval and a disciple of Paul Gauguin, he participated in the emergence of the Pont-Aven school. His meeting with the art dealer Paul Durand-Ruel played a decisive role in the artist's recognition within the Parisian art world. A trip to Venice confirmed his trajectory towards Neo-Impressionism. From 1907, he settled in the manor house of Kervaudu and devoted himself to his daughter's education and his art. He traveled the region, painting sunsets, the sea and the wild coastline. At the end of his life, he told his daughter: "There are still so many beautiful things I would have liked to paint. Look at this golden light on the mulberry trees, this light whose secrets I have so long sought. It's hard to leave you both and to leave the light, the play of colors..." (MLD)