Oil on cardboard, The beach at Toulon by Georges BINET
Oil on cardboard, The beach at Toulon by Georges BINET
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Georges Binet 1865-1949
Double-sided work
Born in Le Havre in 1865, Georges Jules Ernest Binet grew up facing the sea, whose light and colors would profoundly influence his work.
Initially trained in his native town by Charles Lhullier, he continued his studies in Paris, in the renowned workshops of Raphaël Collin and Fernand Cormon.
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| Dimensions | 43 × 37 cm |
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Binet soon emancipated himself from academicism and adopted a freer approach, influenced by the Impressionists he met in Normandy.
His painting is characterized by a great sensitivity to light, reflections and the changing atmospheres of the coastline.
His beach scenes, particularly those of Le Havre, the banks of the Seine and the South of France, convey all the softness of maritime life: light-colored sand, silhouettes of strollers, shifting skies and infinite shades of water. Binet expresses a subtle emotion, somewhere between realism and poetry, where light becomes the real subject of the painting.
A regular exhibitor at the Salon des Artistes Français between 1889 and 1939, he was awarded a medal in 1899 and named Chevalier de la Légion d'Honneur in 1937.
Georges Binet died in Toulon in 1949, leaving behind him a luminous body of work, a sensitive tribute to the sea, light and the simplicity of everyday life.