Countryside In Provence By Auguste Roure 1878-1936

Landscape of Provence By Auguste Roure 1878-1936 "Oil on canvas measuring 38cm x 55cm plus carved and gilded wooden frame 51cm x 68cm signed lower right Auguste ROURE Born in Avignon on April 26, 1878, died in this same city in Provence on May 6 1936 Initially an apprentice engraver-lithographer, he is encouraged by his older brother, a draftsman He enters the School of Fine Arts in Avignon and works as professor Pierre GRIVOLAS He takes part in regional exhibitions and from 1908 attends the Salon des Indépendants in Paris He binds with René Seyssaud and obtained a professorship at the Ecole des Beaux Arts in Avignon He will lead an international career, exhibiting in galleries in Tokyo and New York, as well as in Geneva, London, Melbourne. His painting selling well Today we find his works at the Calvet Museum in Avignon and in Nîmes.He will be nicknamed the painter of the Garrigue free shipping for the European Union