MARCEL ROCHE (1890-1959) SIGNED FRENCH POST IMPRESSIONIST OIL LANDSCAPE 39 X41"

Here is a very nice Post Impressionist Landscape painting by Well Listed French artist Marcel Roche. Marcel Roche was born in 1890 and was primarily inspired by the 1900s and 1910s. The dynamic development of pictorial art defined the first decades of the twentieth century. It was an era of experimentation and post-Impressionism, with artists first investigating Expressionism and Abstraction. A variety of collectives and communities of artists across the world evolved different ways of articulating these crucial innovations. The Fauves are generally considered to be the first major Post-Impressionist group, working in the at the start of the 20th century. Including artists such as Henry Matisse within their ranks, the Fauves believed that intense, other worldly colours and vibrant brushstrokes were an integral component of their work. At the same time, a young Pablo Picasso, still in his youth, created his renowned Blue and Rose periods in Paris, and by the end of the 1920s he had developed the initial ideas of portraying fractured views of reality alongside his contemporary Georges Braque. This movement became known as Analytical Cubism. The De Stijl group in the Netherlands, under the leadership of Piet Mondrian, began to practice important theories about Abstraction. Alongside this, Kasimir Malevich and his contemporaries developed Constructivism and Suprematism in the Soviet Union. These radical styles of art were demanding and politicised, and looked to serve a new world order. In the meantime, Expressive painting was being further established and explored in a number of places across the world. the Nabis in France were the first to truly explore this movement at the turn of the century, and German groups such as Die Brucke and Der Blaue Reiter soon followed suit, developing the careers of legendary artists such as Kirchner, Franz Marc, and Wassily Kandinsky. The psychological applications of art began to be further explored and developed following the terrors of the WWI. Dadaism, a nonsensical and absurdist movement inspired directly by the war, sprung up in Paris, Berlin, Zurich and Hannover, and launched the careers of artists such as Marcel Duchamp, Francis Picabia, Hannah Höch and Kurt Schwitters. The vital philosophies behind Dadaism would go on to find ground in Surrealism, which was the first art movement to fully incorporate psychology and ideas about the subconscious, and took great inspiration from the work of Sigmund Freud and Carl Jung. The first twenty years of the twentieth century can be viewed to be the most prolific, and are considered as the era in art history when modern and modernist ideas first began to take hold culturally. Mechanisation in production and ideas of order and rationality enabled the discipline of architecture to develop at an astounding rate, and was defined by in the work of Le Corbusier and Gerrit Rietveld. Bauhaus was prevalent at this time and defined the idea of a common discipline across all sectors of creative art. Most, if not all, of the ideologies of important art movements that we associate with modern and contemporary art can be traced back to the diverse range of work made during this time. Paris, 18 April 1929: Flowers, FRF 350 Paris, 19 Feb 1932: Still-life, FRF 520 Paris, 20 Nov 1942: Flowers in a Blue Vase, FRF 1,400 Paris, 5 Feb 1943: Nude Bather on a Riverbank Putting Her Shoes On, FRF 3,100 Paris, 24 Jan 1947: Arrival at the Harbour, FRF 4,500 Paris, 20 Dec 1948: Still-life, FRF 4,300 Paris, 4 May 1955: Red Sideboard, FRF 17,000 Versailles, 24 Oct 1976: Norman Meadow (oil on canvas, 32 × 39¼ ins/81 × 100 cm) FRF 4,100 Calais, 3 July 1988: Barouche Ride (oil on canvas, 32 × 39¼ ins/81 × 100 cm) FRF 18,000 Paris, 14 Dec 1988: Bath (oil on canvas, 28¾ × 46 ins/73 × 116 cm) FRF 8,000 Paris, 4 April 1989: Card Game (gouache and collage, 19 × 21¼ ins/48 × 54 cm) FRF 9,000 Paris, 12 May 1989: The Musette Ball (oil on canvas, 21¼ × 25½ ins/54 × 65 cm) FRF 37,000 Paris, 20 Feb 1990: Fireworks (collage and gouache, 18½ × 15¾ ins/47 × 40 cm) FRF 8,000 Paris, 4 March 1991: Garden (oil on canvas, 36¼ × 28¾ ins/92 × 73 cm) FRF 3,500 Douai, 24 March 1991: St Tropez Harbour (oil on canvas, 18 × 24 ins/46 × 61 cm) FRF 13,000 Paris, 30 April 1993: Bowl of Fruit (oil on canvas, 13 × 16¼ ins/33 × 41 cm) FRF 4,500 Paris, 20 Nov 1994: 14 July Ball (1920, oil on canvas, 31½ × 25½ ins/80 × 64.5 cm) FRF 42,500 Paris, 14 April 1999: Bathing (oil on canvas, 29 × 46 ins/73 × 116 cm) FRF 11,500 Calais, 10 Dec 2000: Dance on the Fourteenth of July (oil on canvas, 22 × 18 ins/55 × 46 cm) FRF 50,000