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Signed ‘Paul Flaubert’ (lower left).
Sizes:
Frame: 28.5 × 33 cm | 11.2 × 13 in
Artwork: 18.5 × 24 cm | 7.3 × 9.4 in
Three sailing boats with ochre and rust-red sails ride a harbour whose water is a carpet of blue, pink, yellow and violet dots; a white sail shimmers in the distance and a rower pulls away in the foreground. It is a joyful, entirely pointillist picture — every inch of it built from small touches of pure colour.
Paul Flaubert (1928–1994) devoted his career to this neo-Impressionist idiom, painting harbours, the Seine at Rouen, Mediterranean ports and Moroccan scenes in a dotted technique that keeps the freshness of Signac while softening the figures with a smoother touch. Marines like this one are the best-loved part of his output.
Presented in a gilt frame and ready to hang; a detailed condition report is available on request.
Private Collection, Spain.
Certificate of Authenticity: Included (Issued by Aurora & Athena).
Packed as size XS (up to 40 × 30 cm) · 33 × 28.5 cm framed
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Paul Flaubert, born in 1928, belongs to the generation of French painters who kept the neo-Impressionist flame alive into the second half of the twentieth century. He worked almost entirely in the pointillist manner, building his pictures from thousands of small touches of pure colour in the tradition of Signac and Henri Martin.
His subjects were the animated scenes he loved: harbours and sailing boats, the Seine at Rouen and Paris, Mediterranean ports, hunting scenes, markets and lakeside walks, as well as Moroccan and Algerian views.
Flaubert’s technique is recognisable at once: a dotted, shimmering ground for sky, water and foliage, against which figures, boats and buildings are painted with a smoother touch so that they stand forward from the light. The effect is decorative, joyful and full of air.
He died in 1994. His work has appeared steadily at auction in France since the early 2000s and is held in private collections across Europe and the United States.
Paul Flaubert (1928–1994), the French painter who kept the neo-Impressionist dot alive into the 1990s, from the Seine at Rouen to the Mediterranean ports; his pointillist marine is at auction with Aurora & Athena.
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