Anders Osterlind (1887-1960) Port Of Honfleur Through The Window 1926. Crozant, Vlaminck, Kickert

New very beautiful and large oil on canvas by Anders Osterlind representing a view of the port of Honfleur through the window in 1926, signed and dated lower center. Size of the painting alone without frame 81x65cm. This is therefore a new expressionist composition by Anders Osterlind, this time he paints a magnificent one of the port of Honfleur seen from a window in 1926, a period of transition, the one where he begins to leave his Cézannian period to enter his periods closer to Vlaminck, he paints here one of his emblematic subjects, a view taken from a window, he will produce many of them at all times (see my last painting by Osterlind sold), therefore the port of Honfleur which he treats with enormous power and in a very rich touch where blues and grays adjoin greens, red, ochre, browns....A major work painted most likely in the company of Conrad Kickert his faithful friend because they were both in Honfleur at the same time. I no longer present Anders Osterlind, whom all my loyal customers know and meet, as one of my favorite painters and almost permanently on the walls of my gallery, alongside Léon Detroy and Charles Bichet. He was one of the spearheads of the famous Crozant school, one of the last great painters, also close to the painters of Bréhat and the Paris school being very close to his friends Modigliani, Soutine or Kikoïne. Son of Allan Osterlind, great Swedish painter friend of Maufra, Anders was born in Lépaud in Creuse, his heart region, hence his attachment to the Crozant school. At the beginning he followed his father and was inspired by him, but he will very quickly detach himself from his influence by rubbing shoulders with Modigliani, Soutine or Kikoïne in Paris. But he will say that his lifelong master will be Cézanne. And indeed, we see in his paintings between 1916 and 1925 that the master of Aix is very influential. Anders's other favorite region was Brittany, especially Bréhat and its surroundings, where his father lived for a long time. Anders's work spans five major periods. A first until around 1916, rather impressionist, very close to his father, then a radical change, the period 1916/1925 very Cézanian therefore and already very powerful, then 1925/1932 where he begins to find his true style more and more expressionist with dominants of gray hence the so-called gray period, then 1932/1943 so-called green period noticeably close to the gray period if not the dominants which change, then 1943/1960, the death of his son Nanic (also a painter) occurs in 1943, there his painting hardens, in the spirit of Soutine, with compositions sometimes very deconstructed, with a very powerful touch and very rich in material, the color reappears and even more at the end of life where his painting calms down with views of Provence or Tunisia in the 50s. He will plant his easel in many regions, Touraine, Center of the France, Alps, Pyrenees, Provence, Cantal, Charente, Orne and even in Tunisia at the end of his life; but Brittany and Creuse will be the regions that he will paint the most, and he is today one of the best painters of the Crozant school, thanks in particular to sumptuous views of Gargilesse. He will have exhibited in many salons and galleries, in France and abroad. An important exhibition started a few days ago at the Creuse Valley Museum in Eguzon, which I advise you to go see, it is also accompanied by a very interesting catalog published by Ardents Editeurs, where you will find some works very close to the one I am offering you. This canvas is in good original condition, cleaned and fully checked recently by a professional, as 9 times out of 10 with Osterlind we notice some cracks due to the strong material but these are fixed and will not move, this gives a lot of charm to his paintings, this is also the reason why copyists do not hesitate to create false cracks in their compositions. Period frame. Work guaranteed authentic