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La Seine en amont de Rouen. Armand GUILLAUMIN. Oil on canvas. Signed lower right. Guillaumin met Paul Cézanne and Camille Pissarro in 1859, when they were students at the Academie Suisse in Paris. He began his career as an avant-garde artist by exhibiting with them at the Salon des Refusés in 1863. He was also active in the Manet circle at the café Guerbois, from which Impressionism developed. Guillaumin developed his landscape style painting outdoors in the environs of Paris while employed on the Paris-Orléans railway. He frequently painted labourers and barges along the quay of the Seine.

In the early 1870s Guillaumin worked with Pissarro at Pontoise and also with Cézanne and Dr. Gachet at Auvers, where Daubigny also lived and worked. Guillaumin's mature Impressionist style, combining pictorial structure and shimmering light, evolved from his contacts with these artists and their shared aesthetic premises. Pissarro encouraged Guillaumin to exhibit alongside them in their first exhibition at the former studio of the photographer Nadar at 35, boulevard des Capucines, in 1874. Guillaumin sent three paintings to the exhibition whose paintings were dubbed the "Impressionists".

Provenance : Durand-Ruel, stock 12945
Terry Angels gallery
Private collection, London, bought 1964