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GUSTAVE CARIOT | Spring Wisteria
Oil on Canvas
27.5 x 41 cms, 10¾" x 16"
This beautiful orginal oil painting by Gustave Cariot depicts a quaint French cottage with delicate purple wisteria in the spring. As a youth, he dedicated his spare time to drawing and sketching various views of the city and countryside surrounding Paris. Largely self-taught, Cariot became a celebrated Post-Impressionist painter. Cariot was also particularly interested in the techniques of the Pointillists and Divisionists, showing an awareness of both brushstrokes and colour theory to his work.
Inspired by Monet's famous studies of haystacks and the Rouen cathedral, Gustave Cariot was fascinated by the fluctuations of light and color brought about by the changing seasons.
He devoted two series of pain