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Mr Jean-Dominique Jacquemond confirmed the authenticity of this work.
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"Novateur as early as 1899, after a short Impressionist and symbolistic period, the palette and technique of Georges d'Espagnat will place it as a forerunner of what will be called Fauvism in 1905. From this time there was a great complicity with his friend Valtat, promoted by long stays in the house of Agay in the South. Landscape that will be born works that critic A. Thomas in 1901 described by the words: 'What his color may have too much thought... these shades are very frank.' But for Georges d'Espagnat, the discovery of these places, his trip to Morocco in 1903 justifies his exuberance: 'Le Midi is not a vain thought, nor a simple park for the bourgeois, it is quite beautiful and stirring, at best very well suited to shaking a little your habits of seeing and painting ... Here, it's sharp; color and drawing..." (Agay at Valtat, February 1901).”
Jean-Dominique Jacquemond, “La vive couleur”, in Georges d’Espagnat, La Bibliothèque des Arts, Paris: 1990, p. 91.