Louis ASTON-KNIGHT (1873-1948) - Lot 101

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Louis ASTON-KNIGHT (1873-1948) - Lot 101
Louis ASTON-KNIGHT (1873-1948) Harfleur, 1893. Watercolor signed and dedicated lower right. Gilt frame. 36 x 25.5 cm Franco-American, a pupil of Jules Lefebvre and Tony Robert-Fleury, Aston-Knight won a medal at the 1900 Exposition Universelle and exhibited at the Salon for 30 years, winning a gold medal in 1905. He painted many landscapes of Normandy, eventually settling in Beaumont-Le-Roger in 1919. Almost all his compositions feature water, an element he is a master at depicting. This watercolor is no exception, with highly successful reflections, particularly of Saint-Martin Church. Aston-Knight usually painted with his easel and feet in the water. Also exhibiting in the United States, it was his views of thatched cottages and riverbanks in Normandy that met with the greatest success. The acquisition of one of his river scenes in 1922 by U.S. President Warren Harding for the White House increased the painter's popularity. His meeting with Claude Monet was another defining moment in his career. The two men hit it off, and he began visiting Monet regularly in Giverny. Inspired by the site, Aston-Knight also designed a garden for his Manoir de Chantereine, an achievement that was as famous at the time as that of the Impressionist master.
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