Henri MARTIN (1860-1943). The bridge at Labastide-du-Vert. Oil on canvas, faint signature lower right. Height 65.5 cm - Width : 102 cm Accompanied by its certificate of authenticity issued by Galerie Charles et André Bailly, Paris, dated November 10, 1987, and a letter from Cyrille Martin, the artist's grandson, attesting to its authenticity. Provenance: acquired from I.D.L Gallery in May 2006. Note: Henri Martin followed an academic training at the Beaux-Arts in Toulouse, then in Paris, which he gradually abandoned, influenced by his travels in Italy and the Pointillist masters, including Georges Seurat. He quickly became a great master of light and nature: Parisian galleries snapped up his works and he received numerous public commissions. Settled in Saint-Cirq-Lapopie in the Lot since 1900, he moved to Labastide-du-Vert, where he found the Marquayrol estate, a larger house for his four children in an idyllic setting that was to be an inexhaustible source of inspiration, with over two hundred paintings depicting the place. In the manner of the Impressionists, he set up his easel outdoors, depicting the same places at different times of the day or seasons to capture a new light and poetry. His prolific output makes him a fervent promoter of the Lot.