Gaston Knecht (1875-1968) Ruins Of Crozant, Creuse. Mountain Painter, Alsace, Paris Alluaud

Very pretty and quite rare oil on canvas by Gaston Knecht representing the ruins of Crozant, signed lower right with the studio stamp. Size of the canvas alone without frame 41x33cm and 60x52cm including frame. Price with frame 590€ or 480€ without frame, your choice. This is therefore a very beautiful post-impressionist composition by Gaston Knecht who painted here the ruins of Crozant and the Creuse valley around 1920, in any case before the construction of the Eguzon dam. His touch and palette are very successful, in the purest tradition of the Crozant school, quite close to painters such as Alluaud or Madeline. Yet Knecht is not listed among the painters of the Crozant school, but once again, the proof is that this magnificent valley of the Creuse attracted a considerable number of artists, from the most famous to the most anonymous. Gaston Knecht is not at all unknown, a French painter who regularly exhibited at the Salon des artistes français, rather known as a mountain painter, whether in the Alps, Alsace or the Vosges. But he also set up his easel in many other regions of France. This canvas is in good condition, with some very slight but imperceptible repairs; delivered in an old Montparnasse frame or without a frame, as desired. Work guaranteed authentic