Alfred Lesbros (1873-1940) Village In Provence, Avignon. Fauve, Chabaud, Group Of Treize Flour

SUBLIME oil on hardboard by Alfred Lebros depicting a path in a town in Provence, signed lower left. Size of the painting alone without frame 54x73cm and 76.5x95.5cm including frame. This is indeed a new large Fauvist work by Alfred Lesbros who paints here a path in an alley in Provence, most likely Avignon or Villeneuve les Avignon. Produced around 1935/38, the painter's mature period, who therefore uses his Fauvist style, that is to say large flat areas outlined in black, his palette is in his usual tones, dark greens, browns, madder green, gray, ochre, purple, plus a superb blue/mauve for the hill and finally a chick yellow for his sky. Major and powerful work, emblematic of this great Avignon painter who often rivals the master Auguste Chabaud. I no longer present Lesbros, famous Avignon painter, spearhead of the Group of Thirteen alongside Pierre Alexandre Belladen, Alfred Bergier, Lina Bill, Léon Colombier, Claude Firmin, Jules Flour, Joseph Hurard, Joseph Meissonnier and Louis Agricol Montagné. He is recognized for his very innovative work for the time, notably thanks to his minimalist stencils; his work is sometimes very close to that of Auguste Chabaud, whom he obviously worked alongside. He had several periods, the first one from 1897 to 1910, then the stencils from 1910 to 1926, then the Blacks and Whites 1926-1927, Expressionist period 1927-1931, colored period 1932-1934, the white outlines 1935-1936, resumption of the colored period 1937-1938 and the black, blue and white outlines 1939-1940. He attended several art schools as well as Provençal masters like Jules Flour and Pierre Grivolas and was at the initiative of the exhibitions of the Group of Thirteen. The group organized a first exhibition on December 21, 1912 which was a great success, followed by a second exhibition on December 18, 1913, which was also the last. He participated in the Salon de Lyon, the Salon des Indépendants in Paris, and the Salon d'Automne. He painted more than a hundred works that are now exhibited in museums or public collections in Aix-en-Provence, Arles, Avignon, Marseille, Montpellier, and Tournon. The Musée Calvet in Avignon owns: La Cour de la Livrée de Thury, Le Jardin, and Promenade. He was influenced by the early 20th-century art styles, from Impressionism to Cubism, which he conveyed on his canvases with his Provençal temperament. These are oil paintings with landscapes as their main subject. The techniques vary; thus, we find the same view treated with different painting techniques: pointillism, realism, synthetism, or even abstraction. From the 1920s, his subjects were taken around Graveson, Boulbon, Barbentane, Villeneuve-les-Avignon, and Avignon. Alfred Lesbros is buried in the Montfavet cemetery. This work is in perfect condition and comes in a superb old Montparnasse frame; I can also sell it unframed for €150 less. Guaranteed authentic work.