Auguste Chabaud 1882 - 1955 - Landscape With Large Trees

Auguste Chabaud 1882 - 1955 - Landscape with large trees
Beautiful landscape by Auguste Chabaud signed lower right. Presented in a gilded frame.

Dimensions including frame 55 x 44 centimeters

Biography:

In 1899, Auguste Chabaud left for Paris to continue his studies at the Académie Julian and the École des Beaux-Arts, in the studio of Fernand Cormon (1845-1924). There he met Henri Matisse and André Derain. In 1901, Auguste Chabaud had to leave Paris to earn a living. From 1903 to 1906, he did his military service in Tunisia. He made his debut in 1907 at the Salon des Indépendants, exhibiting among the Fauves. He was to discover a new life, that of Parisian nightlife and cabarets. Collectors began to take an interest in his work. In Montmartre, where he had his studio, he painted the lively or deserted streets and squares, scenes of nightlife, and brothels. In 1911, he began his Cubist period, working in large formats and sculpting. Numerous exhibitions followed, including the one in New York in 1913, where he exhibited alongside Henri Matisse, André Derain, Maurice de Vlaminck, and Pablo Picasso, then in Chicago and Boston. His paintings from the Fauvist period depict Parisian nightlife: cabarets, café-theaters, prostitutes, in bright shades (yellow, red) contrasting with the colors of the night (navy blue, black). From 1920, he began his Blue Period, where he used Prussian blue in its pure state, in which Provence, its characters, and its customs were highlighted. The South, which he never stopped painting, even in his Parisian period, would occupy him exclusively from then on.