Albert Joseph (1868-1952) Farm With A Pink Roof. Limousin, Crozant School, Gauguin, Fauve Detroy

New oil/canvas by Albert Joseph (go see a 2nd canvas also for sale on this site) signed lower right + titled on the back on an old label "ferme au toit rose" + stamp of the studio sale of Maître Galateau in Limoges in 1986 + No. 67 of the catalog. Indeed this work is referenced in the catalog of the studio sale. Format of the canvas alone without frame 27x35cm and 37x45cm frame included. It is therefore a new canvas by Albert Joseph post-impressionist with fauve tendency who paints here a farm with a pink roof, most probably in Limousin, either near La Jonchère, Peyrat le Chateau or possibly in Creuse. His touch is typical of the painter's mature period, I think around 1925/1930, it is then in large flat tints, as well as his palette with its famous greens + also pink, sky blue, brown, orange and some subtle little touches of bright red. I no longer present Albert Joseph, an essential painter of the Creuse valley, a painter with a strong character, who rubbed shoulders with many great painters like Guillaumin or Gauguin, he will be very close to the latter but will also quickly move away from him following a falling out, they will even exchange paintings some time earlier. Born in 1868 in Auteuil, Albert Joseph began, after leaving high school, an artistic career, joining the Académie Julian in 1887. There he rubbed shoulders with Henri Matisse, Édouard Vuillard, Pierre Bonnard and Maurice Denis. Two years later, he made extensive trips through England, Italy, and Algeria, where he lived with desert nomads in the company of his friend, the painter René Juste. He really began painting at the age of 32, frequenting Barbizon and Brittany. He exhibited for the first time in 1901 at the Salon des Artistes Français before attending the Salon des Indépendants. In 1903, he sent his first painting taken in the Creuse Valley, which was pleasantly acclaimed by critics. Then, he traveled to the shores of the Mediterranean, to Banyuls, Cassis, Avignon, and Collioure, then frequented by Léon Detroy. There, he particularly studied the influence of light on water. From 1920, he spent his summers in Limousin, in Eymoutiers, Peyrat-le-Château, La Jonchère, and Crozant, where he frequented Eugène Alluaud and Paul Madeline. In contact with the Creuse, his painting became darker and more rigorous. He painted there until the end of his life after retiring to La Jonchère between 1939 and 1945. He died in 1952 after a solitary end to his career, abandoning all commercial endeavors, selling only to friends or museums. This canvas is on its original stretcher, in perfect condition, delivered in a contemporary gilded frame. Work guaranteed authentic