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Paysage d'Île de France, c. 1885 Signed 'Guillaumin' lower left Oil on canvas 28 ¾ x 36 ¼ in, 73 x 92 cm Provenance Galerie Serret Fabiani, Paris Private Collection, France Galerie Daniel Malingue, Paris (in 1986) Paris, Hôtel Drouot (Joron-Derem), 16 March 2011, lot 52 Paris, Private Collection Exhibitions Tokyo, Iseta, Camille Pissarro, 9 March – 9 April 1984, no. 70 Paris, Galerie Daniel Malingue, Maîtres impressionnistes et modernes, 7 November – 22 December 1986, no. 8, illus. Pontoise, Musée Pissarro, Armand Guillaumin 1841-1927, Les années impressionnistes, 5 October – 17 November 1991, no. 14, illus. (travelled to: Aulnay-sous-Bois, Galerie de l'Hôtel de Ville, 23 November – 17 December 1991) Paris, Galerie Pierre Levy, Armand Guillaumin (1841-1927), 18 September – 25 November 2009, pp. 28 – 29, illus. Tokyo, Mitsukoshi, Pissarro et les peintres de la vallée de l'Oise, 11 – 22 February 2004, no. 14 (travelled to: Hiroshima, Onominchi City Museum of Art, 20 March – 25 April 2004 and Shizuoka, Hamamatsu Municipal Museum of Art, 29 April – 5 June 2004) Literature G. Serret and D. Fabiani, Armand Guillaumin 1841-1927: Catalogue raisonné de l'oeuvre peint, Paris, 1971, no. 129, illus. A. Weber, 'Armand Guillaumin : Classique de l'impressionnisme', Vision sur les Arts, Paris, November – December 1984, no. 156, illus. Born in Paris, Guillaumin is celebrated for his landscapes of the Île-de- France, such as the present. The artist first studied at the Académie Suisse, where he met Pissarro and Cézanne. Soon after he exhibited at the first Impressionist group exhibition in 1874 and then in six of the eight Impressionist shows thereafter. 1885 was a pivotal moment for Guillaumin as the Impressionists each began to choose different artistic paths. For Guillaumin, his work started to prioritise colour over light, leading him to change the time of day in which he painted. Previously he had worked at midday resulting in his work being dominated by yellow-blue contrast, but now he began to paint in the early morning or evening, resulting in a more red and green palette. Paysage d'Île de France displays Guillaumin's distinct predilection for choosing landscapes dominated by strong colours. His varied brushstrokes compiled of short, distinct dashes on the brickwork and looser, broader rich strokes in the sky and ground, add a sense of movement and new freedom to his work. His work from this period heralds the movement towards Post-Impressionism. Guillaumin's landscapes from 1885 are held in a number of public museums internationally including Musée du Petit Palais, Paris (The Road to the Valley), Seattle Art Museum (Essence of Spring, Chebreuse Valley) and Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid (The Road of Damiette). Jean Baptiste Armand Guillaumin 1841-1927 Guillaumin, The Road of Damiette, 1885, Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid Guillaumin, Essence of Spring, Chevreuse Valley, c. 1885, Seattle Art Museum, Seattle 4