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RAYMOND THIBÉSART | La Vallée de la Seine au Printemps
Oil on Canvas
61 x 91 cms / 24 x 35 ¾ inches
Signed 'R. Thibésart' (lower left)
La Vallée de la Seine au Printemps is an original landscape oil painting by Raymond Thibésart. Thibésart blends light pastel tones to create the impression of a hazy sky, softly outlining distant hills and focussing the eye on the blossoming tree in the foreground. The composition’s subtle structure and balance of texture are typical of the Post-Impressionist art movement.
Raymond Thibésart’s ethereal landscapes won great acclaim in the French Salons in the early twentieth century. Born in the elegant town of Bar-sur-Aube, surrounded by gently rolling hills and the champagne vineyards of the Grand Est region, the beauty of the French landscape and the artistic possibilities that it evoked made a deep impression on the young Thibésart.
In his early twenties Thibésart studied at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris and later at the progressive Académie Julian under the tutorage of Jules Lefebvre and Tony Robert-Fleury, who introduced a strong element of symbolism into his work.
Thibésart worked in pastel outdoors, allowing him to make rapid sketches of changing light effects and atmospheric qualities of the landscape. Within the tranquillity of his studio, Thibésart would then transfer the colours, movements and atmosphere captured in pastel onto large scale canvases whilst ensuring the spontaneity of his subject was never lost.
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