Alfred Victor Fournier Hand Numbered Limited Edition Print on Paper :"La Plage"
Title: La Plage
Dimensions (W x H ): Paper Size: 32 x 26 in | Image Size: 28 x 22 in
Edition | Medium: Each print is hand numbered, accompanied by a certificate signed by the Master Printer and is numbered to match the print. The editions are limited to 1880 copies. |
This Gouttelette print on paper is published with light-fast inks to BS1006 Standard onto acid-free calcium carbonate buffered stock, mould-made from 100% cotton and sourced from environmentally conscious paper suppliers. This product is exclusive to Rosenstiels.
About the Art: Superior Edition
About the Artist:
Alfred-Victor Fournier, painter of Breton scenes, was born in Paris in 1872 and as a young man studied under the traditionally academic figure painter, Albert Maignan. He became a Member of the Sociétaire des Artistes Français in 1901, exhibiting at their annual Salon and receiving an honourable mention in 1902 and a medal in 1906.
Like many Parisian artists of his generation, Fournier was drawn to the clear bright light and clement weather of Brittany. Here, in the fishing villages of Pont-Aven, Quimperlé and Concarneau, the inhabitants became used to posing as models for the artists who congregated there and they still habitually wore their traditional costumes - indeed, there were at the time over 250 versions of the distinctive black and white head-dresses seen in some of Fournier's paintings.
Artists of many nationalities converged on the area, the British artists including Stanhope Forbes who found in Newlyn an English equivalent of Brittany. But Fournier seems to have remained in Concarneau for virtually the rest of his life, painting scenes of the sunlit harbour and thriving markets.
Fournier died in Paris in 1924.
