René Juste (1868-1954) Summer Landscape. Creuse, Crozant School, Joseph, Detroy, Marlotte...

Very beautiful oil on canvas by René Juste representing a countryside landscape in summer, signed lower left. Format of the canvas alone 46x55cm This is therefore a very pretty post-impressionist composition by René Juste who paints a countryside landscape in summer near a house and a pond; it could either be a Creuse landscape, but why not also the surroundings of Marlotte near Fontainebleau where he lived for a long time... Produced around 1920/1930 we immediately recognize the impressionist touch typical of Juste at this period, just like his soft and subtle palette where greens rub shoulders with yellows, blues, purples, pink etc... I no longer present René Juste, an important painter of the Crozant school. René Camille Juste, born in Paris in 1868, established his studio in Marlotte in Seine et Marne where he was curator of the museum. He was a student of Cormon and participated in the Salon des Artistes Français from 1902. He quickly became friends with his colleague Albert Joseph, together they traveled to England, Italy but also the Maghreb. Back in France they both went to the same places including Brittany, Creuse, Collioure, Ile de France etc... René Juste first had a pointillist period where he excelled, quite close to Léon Detroy, another friend, then like Albert Joseph he would then find his own style thanks to a more stylized touch, with large flat areas closer to Fauvism than Impressionism. He painted in Brittany in Finistère (Faou), in Côtes d'Armor in Bréhat, but also in Creuse in Crozant where he rubbed shoulders with Léon Detroy, Armand Guillaumin, Paul Madeline and of course his faithful friend Albert Joseph. His works can be found in several museums, at the Luxembourg Museum, Tours, etc. This canvas is in good condition, for the moment only delivered in a marie-louise, but the format is very standard. Work guaranteed authentic