La Rance by Othon Friesz
La Rance by Othon Friesz
- 🎨 Othon Friesz, born Achille-Émile Othon Friesz, was a French artist associated with the Fauvist movement.
- 🏫 He studied at the Le Havre School of Fine Arts and later in Paris, where he met prominent artists like Henri Matisse, Albert Marquet, and Georges Rouault.
- 🖌️ Friesz rebelled against academic teaching and joined the Fauves, exhibiting with them in 1907, but later returned to a more traditional style of painting.
- ⚔️ He served in the army during World War I and resumed painting in Paris afterward, with occasional trips elsewhere.
- 💼 Friesz’s later works departed from Fauvism, showing influences of artists like Cézanne, with a more restrained palette and a focus on logical composition.
- ⚰️ He died in Paris in 1949 and is buried in the Cimetière du Montparnasse.
- 🖼️ Friesz’s notable paintings include “Paysage à La Ciotat,” “Le Travail à l’Automne,” and “Les Baigneuses des Andelys.”
Available as a fine art print and as a stretched canvas panel (heavy fine art canvas stretched over 1.5 inch deep edge solid wood frame).
All prints are made using archival art stocks and UV pigment inks to give up to 200 years life. Prints are sold unframed and unmounted.
