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HIS DESCENT
Near the end of the XIXth century, the USA welcomed with an opened mind the art of French artists misunderstood in their own country. That happened mainly under the impulse of Mary Cassatt, herself a painter.
The Impressionists were inventors, probably too original for their environment, who created unexpected connections between their immersion in nature, extreme sensitivity, a greed for colors, and an imagination both libertarian and harmonious. During a period, they remained unknown in Europe - at best marginalized.
Robert Larroque, born in 1921 in southern France, belongs to the generation that followed these Impressionists. But he has a lot in common with them : a free and independent artistic approach defying dominant conventions ; an insatiable will to explore the infinite relations of colors born of a particularly fertile palette, the care given to the final coherence of paintings, beyond the gesture spurts.