An extremely prolific artist who enjoyed popularity and commercial success during his lifetime, an enterprising man in love with life, the most impressionist, it seems, of Czech painters, and also one of the Czech artists closest to France - a country with which he lived a long and unfortunate love affair.
In Barbizon, Radimský painted the first of his famous paintings, entitled "Studies of Ferns", for which he was awarded as the youngest painter at the Paris Salon in 1894.
Radimský's other awards followed: gold medals in Rouen (1895) and at the Universal Exhibition in Paris (1900). Like Claude Monet, Václav Radimský settled near Giverny, in the village of Le Goulet, where he bought an old mill, called La Bergamotte. This region located in the Seine valley, on the border of Normandy and Ile-de-France, inspired the Czech painter for more than twenty years. Karel Srp explains: "The painters of the School of Rouen, the circle that had formed around Claude Monet, helped Radimský find his own way, to which he remained faithful until the end of his life. From now on, he will focus on the reflections on the water, on the surface of the water as such, on the time that passes? This is, I think, the main feature of his work: reflections, the mirror effect, all these subjects that express the unity and wholeness of the universe are typical for Radimský, whether he paints spring or winter. »

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LOT n°35 Vaclav RADIMSKY Vaclav RADIMSKY (1887-1946) -Buissons fleuris - Huile sur toile signée en bas à gauche - 55 x 76 cm - Petits manques sur les bordures - Provenance : Collection privée, succession - Ami de Claude Monet,… Fiche détaillée