A beautiful and colorful Oil on Board painting of the flowering broom in Provence by French painter Édouard Salomon Crémieux
Édouard Salomon Crémieux was born in Marseilles in 1856. He began his training as a painter in the studio of Marin Guindon in Marseilles, then went to Paris where he joined the École des Beaux-Arts with Fernand Cormon as his teacher.
It was in the latter’s studio that Crémieux met Toulouse-Lautrec and Van Gogh.
An Academic painter during this period, he opened a studio in 1882, became a professor at the École des Beaux-Arts and a member of the Académie des Beaux-Arts.
Then he decided to return to his native city and set up his studio on Quai Rive-Neuve.
From then on, his style changed, he was inspired by Provence and its warm and colorful atmosphere which helped develop his color palette.
He produced seascapes, landscapes of the Provencal South and daily scenes of Marseilles life, always careful to render the light and intensity of colors.
A methodical and diligent painter, his works reflect an exquisite softness of execution tending towards poetry.
He participated in regional Salons where he won numerous prizes, as well as in Parisian salons, including the Salon de Artistes Français from 1884 to 1912, obtaining a 3rd class medal in 1895.
His paintings are exhibited in numerous museums.
In April 1944, at the age of 88, Édouard Crémieux and his wife were arrested and transferred to Drancy, from where a convoy to Auschwitz departed.
They were executed upon their arrival in May 1944.
Our work is seen from the Provençal countryside on a beautiful spring day.
True to his style, Crémieux paints with gentleness, giving his painting a great sense of tranquility.
A woman walks along a path lined with flowering embankments where broom shoots its colors like geysers.
In the background, a meadow, then a small hill topped by a farmhouse, at the foot of which olive trees run in their characteristic green. In the background, the Sainte-Beaume mountain range, with its purplish reflections, stretches across the horizon.
A beautiful testament to the talent of Edouard Crémieux.
The painting is signed on the lower right hand side.
Oil on cardboard, located and dated on the back 1922, bearing an exhibition label, presented in an engraved and patinated wooden frame.
Unframed 11 x 14
Framed 15 1/2 x 18 3/4