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ADRIEN HAMON (1875-163)
La Gourgue near Saint-Antonin, Tarn-et-Garonne
Oil on canvas
Signed lower right
Oil on canvas, signed lower right
32,5 x 41 cm - 12 3/4 x 16 1/8 in.
Provenance
Private collection, France
Note
Adrien Hamon was born in Bégard (Côte-du-Nord) in 1875. In Saint-Brieuc, he attended the workshop of landscape artist Hoffmann and began to paint seascapes. He studied the coast, the shape of the waves and the rising tide. Dreaming of becoming a sailor, he enlisted in Brest and boarded the ship La Magicienne. In 1895, he took part in an
expedition to Sudan, where he discovered the African continent. He observed and took notes in his sketchbooks. Later, he was appointed to serve in the Far East, where he met the colonial archaeologist Général de Beylié, and became his private secretary and painter. He brought back many sketches and watercolors from his travels. Forced to return to France, he set up a modest nomadic landscape studio in an old house in the little port of Cassis. He perfected his technique at the studio of Provençal painter François Nardi, with whom he became close friends. The two traveled the Côte d'Azur, completing numerous studies. Hamon is assigned to Madagascar to teach drawing, lithography and cartography to student draftsmen in the geographic service. He was entrusted with the illustration of the official Annuaire de la Colonie, as well as commissions for paintings, posters and albums. After serving as a captain after the war, Hamon turned his attention definitively to painting, settling in Collioure. The town inspired many of his seascapes, views of the coast, harbors and boats.
La Gourgue near Saint-Antonin, Tarn-et-Garonne
Oil on canvas
Signed lower right
Oil on canvas, signed lower right
32,5 x 41 cm - 12 3/4 x 16 1/8 in.
Provenance
Private collection, France
Note
Adrien Hamon was born in Bégard (Côte-du-Nord) in 1875. In Saint-Brieuc, he attended the workshop of landscape artist Hoffmann and began to paint seascapes. He studied the coast, the shape of the waves and the rising tide. Dreaming of becoming a sailor, he enlisted in Brest and boarded the ship La Magicienne. In 1895, he took part in an
expedition to Sudan, where he discovered the African continent. He observed and took notes in his sketchbooks. Later, he was appointed to serve in the Far East, where he met the colonial archaeologist Général de Beylié, and became his private secretary and painter. He brought back many sketches and watercolors from his travels. Forced to return to France, he set up a modest nomadic landscape studio in an old house in the little port of Cassis. He perfected his technique at the studio of Provençal painter François Nardi, with whom he became close friends. The two traveled the Côte d'Azur, completing numerous studies. Hamon is assigned to Madagascar to teach drawing, lithography and cartography to student draftsmen in the geographic service. He was entrusted with the illustration of the official Annuaire de la Colonie, as well as commissions for paintings, posters and albums. After serving as a captain after the war, Hamon turned his attention definitively to painting, settling in Collioure. The town inspired many of his seascapes, views of the coast, harbors and boats.