MAURICE MARTIN | Vaches au Pâturage dans une Prairie Ensoleillée
Oil on Canvas
54 x 65 cms / 21¼ x 25½ inches
Signed Maurice Martin (lower left)
Maurice Martin’s Vaches au Pâturage dans une Prairie Ensoleillée demonstrates an acute sensitivity to atmospheric conditions, typical of early twentieth-century Post-Impressionist landscape painting. Martin juxtaposes the verticality of slender poplars and birches with the soft, rounded forms of grazing cattle, creating compositional balance and spatial depth. His palette of greens, ochres, and soft pastels evokes the ephemeral quality of dappled light filtering through foliage. This work reflects Martin’s mastery in harmonising rural subject matter with painterly abstraction and formal structure, positioning him as a key figure within the modern French landscape tradition.
A master of bold colours and strong form, Maurice Martin was a key practitioner in the Moret School of painting. This talented group of artists were indebted to the Impressionist artists, most notably Alfred Sisley, who painted at Moret-sur-Loing in the 1890s. Martin was frequently seen painting en plein-air, believing this to be the only way to capture the immediacy of the scenery. Martin's technique demanded a free and spontaneous style of painting in order to catch the rapid changes in outdoor light. He attempted to extract the colours and shapes as well as the fragrances of nature, putting the total ambiance and experience directly onto the canvas. The highlights of Martin's career were the Gold Medal he was awarded at the 1946 Paris Salon, and becoming Vice President of the Society of French Landscape Painters.
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