Armand GUILLAUMIN (1841-1927). "Crozant - La roche de l'Écho, brouillard", circa 1918. Oil on canvas signed lower right, located, titled and dated on the back. Height : 54 cm - Width : 65 cm Provenance : - Galerie Serret et Fabiani, purchased in 1987 ; - Paris private collection, then by descent. Note: Armand Guillaumin was a central figure in the Impressionist movement. Of modest origins, he moved to Paris in 1857, where he met Pissarro and Cézanne. His landscapes of the Creuse region, particularly around Crozant, are distinguished by their exuberant colors and bold brushstrokes. A committed painter, he took part in the Salon des refusés in 1863, and became a member of the Société anonyme coopérative des peintres, sculpteurs et graveurs, which gave rise to the Impressionist movement. Crozant, on the banks of the Creuse, is one of the artist's favorite themes, which he interprets here in a delicate atmosphere of luminous colors.