Joseph Hurard 1887-1956 Goat And Sheep In Pasture.

Joseph Hurard 1887-1956, Goat and sheep in pasture. Oil on panel signed lower left and titled on the back. It should be noted that it is rare to find foreground subjects in the production of the master from Avignon, usually the characters are treated in the background on a path or near a house or even a boat. In this work sheep and goat, without forgetting their shepherd, are the main subjects and not as extras as usual. Frame dimensions height 48.7cm, width 56.5cm; panel height 37.8cm, width 45.5cm. Joseph Marius Hurard the master of colors was born in Avignon on April 3, 1887. He was a student of Pierre Grivolas in the fine arts. In this crucible, he rubs shoulders with Meissonnier, Bergier, Bill, Belladen and Chabaud who consider him one of theirs. He was part of the group of thirteen. In this environment particularly favorable to his all-consuming passion, he quickly learned about the alchemy of colors. Very close to Grivolas who will teach him the motif in Villeneuve, les Angles, la montagnette; it will quickly become shiny. A great collector Gaston Bouzanquet will present it to Charles-Roux and Detaille who will launch it in the galleries of Marseille, Lyon, Bordeaux then in Paris at George Bernheim and Devambez. Joseph Hurard produces works of very high quality, for example, for the Lavera refineries, he made huge panels, a series of Nîmes monuments for the Nîmes tourist office. He will belong to the "Group of thirteen" then to the "New Group of Regional Artists", he will participate in all the Avignon exhibitions of the Vauclusian Society of Friends of the Arts, the Rhodanien salons, the exhibitions of Nîmes, Montpellier, Aix and the end of his life will exhibit regularly in the great Marseilles galleries Jouvène and Lespérut. His works can be seen at the Palais de Justice in Nîmes, the Avignon city hall, the Crau museum, and the Ziem museum in Martigues