Eugène CLARY (1856-1926). View of the Vexin near Les Andelys - Lot 37

Eugène CLARY (1856-1926). View of the Vexin near Les Andelys. Oil on canvas, signed. 30 x 60 cm. Jean-Eugène Clary, known as Eugène Clary, born in Paris on June 14, 1856, died in Les Andelys in 1929, was a French landscape painter. A pupil of César de Cock, he first exhibited at the 1878 Salon, then at the Salons de la Société nationale des beaux-arts and the Salon des artistes français. He won a bronze medal at the 1900 Universal Exhibition in Paris. He painted many landscapes in Normandy, particularly around Les Andelys, where he settled and spent the rest of his life. He exhibited regularly at the Georges Petit, Bernheim and Reitlinger galleries, and in London. A talented Impressionist painter, he produced numerous works on the banks of the Seine, which he endowed with a very personal style and charm, in which we can recognize the legacy of Claude Monet and strong convergences with the painters of the Rouen School, Joseph Delattre in particular. Around 1908, he became progressively blind, and music was his artistic refuge until his death in 1926. Several of his paintings are preserved at the Musée d'Art et d'Histoire de Lisieux and at the Musée Nicolas-Poussin in Les Andelys, where he lived to the end of his life. Works by the artist are held by the Musée d'Orsay (Portrait de Suzanne Valadon), as well as by museums in Normandy: Les Andelys (La Seine and Château Gaillard), Louviers, and Lisieux.