| (....) Fortunately, the painters understood that the profession did not prevent them from showing their real qualities. Look at the two small landscapes of Lourmarin exhibited by Mr. Girieud. This artist relaxes his once systematic talent. He no longer hides under theories a sensitivity that one recognizes by the way in which these hills with bluish lines, these towers, these houses are rendered. We thought we were finding a painter, we meet a man. These small canvases will perhaps one day honor Mr. Girieud more than his large paintings - which, moreover, are remarkable - because he was himself. (....)
Reproduction of a Lourmarin landscape |