The sale of two parts of the studio collections of painters Henri Royer and Raymond Thibésart will be the highlight of the Impressionist & Modern Art auction to be held in Neuilly-sur-Seine on 27 June 2023.

Henri Royer (1869-1938) was the son of Jean Royer, a well-known printer-lithographer in Nancy. Thanks to Émile Friant, who was both his teacher and his travelling companion (Belgium, Holland, Italy, the French Riviera), he entered Jules Lefebvre's studio at the École des Beaux-Arts and attended the Académie Jullian. In 1888, aged just nineteen, he exhibited Précoce, a large canvas acquired by the Musée de Toul. In 1890, he moved to Paris and exhibited regularly at the Salon des Artistes français. He became a sought-after portraitist and discovered Brittany in 1896. His naturalism, close to that of Dagnan-Bouveret, and his piety inspired Le Bénédicité (Nancy, Musée des Beaux-arts, on deposit with the Musée d'Orsay) and l'Ex-Voto (Quimper, Musée des Beaux-arts). He was made a Chevalier de la Légion d'Honneur in 1899, and at the 1900 Universal Exhibition he sent En Flandre, le soir (Poznan, muzeum Narodowe), a painting very similar to Friant in its inspiration, which won him a gold medal. Finally, in 1906, Louis Majorelle chose Henri Royer to decorate the porch of his Nancy villa with a canvas on the theme of the end of the day.

Raymond Thibésart (1874-1968) came from a wealthy Champagne family living in Enghien, north of Paris. It was there that he met Émile Boggio, a Venezuelan painter seventeen years his senior, who gave him his first lessons. Together, the two men travelled around Italy with Henri Martin. Then came Switzerland, Belgium and Corsica, all sources of inspiration for the young artist. First on location, then in the comfort of his studio on the banks of the Seine, this lover of nature sought, as a worthy heir to the Impressionists, to imprint his vision as directly as possible on the canvas: trees in flower, frosty mornings, the Mediterranean coast, work in the fields or portraits of his loved ones.

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Tuesday 27 June 2023
Aguttes Neuilly

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