AUGUSTE BOUVARD | Vue de Village de Pêcheur

(signed Pelletier)
13" x 18" / 33 x 46 cms
Oil on Canvas
 
“The love of paintings came when I saw one by Auguste Bouvard in Gladwell’s curved window in the City. I kept coming back to this and despite the price (and in guineas too) I thought about plucking up the courage to get it and raising the money. Weeks later I called in to buy it, but it had already gone to someone much quicker off the mark, yet I still need to look at a painting many times before deciding to buy it.
 
For me these paintings give pleasure from the scene itself, memories of events passed evoked by the painting, the harmony of the composition, the remarkable effects of the colour combinations and the emotional response to the painting as a whole.”