Paul KRON (1869-1936) - Bord de mer

Paul KRON 1869-1936

Difficult to classify, his wide-ranging discussions did not place him at the forefront of the scene for neophytes, but the critics of his time were not mistaken about his talent.

At the age of 16, he already had the idea of becoming a painter and received advice from the Marseilles artist Adolphe Monticelli.

At the age of 21, he moved to Paris, where his sensibility developed and his painting varied between post-impressionism and expressionism.

It's enough to observe the power of his palette, the strength of the line that defines his landscapes, which can also lead some of his works towards Fauvism, through the fusion and blaze of pure tones, like our work.

His compositions proclaim the exaltation of nature.

It is enough to observe the power of his palette, the strength of the line that defines the landscapes, which can also lead some of his works towards Fauvism, through the fusion and blaze of pure tones, like our work.

A number of twentieth-century art critics, not the least of them, placed him among the great artists of his time, praising him as a "painter of light" and "a technician of colour with "clear, dazzling strokes", his compositions proclaiming the exaltation of nature.

Louis Vauxcelles (1934): "When you first see a Krôn, all you perceive is a dazzling blaze, a tangle of pure, diaphanous tones and furious strokes.

René Barotte (1947): "His landscapes are exquisitely clear and sensitive".

Pierre Descargues (1947): "Paul Krôn was a painter torn between a taste for the delicacies of Impressionism and the refinements of colour [...] and a desire for expressive painting, atmospheric painting in which a powerful and joyful breath lifts the elements of the landscape".

René Domergue (1947): "Today, this artist is one of the best in the world.

René Huyghe, of the Académie française (1986): "What a pleasure to find Krôn once again, and to see what a major role he plays in the lineage that runs from Monticelli to Fauvism and Impressionism.