Henri MARTIN (1860-1943). The Lot in Flood. Oil on canvas, traces of signature lower right (very slightly missing in the center). Height 85 cm - Width : 73 cm Provenance : - Public auction sale on October 25, 1987 by Maître Jacques Joanny in Albi ; - Paris private collection, then by descent. Note: Henri Martin, post-impressionist painter and member of the Institut, famous for his landscapes of the Quercy region and his large-scale public decorations, remains a key figure in French painting of the Belle Époque. This landscape with its incomparable atmospheric perspective, animated by the earthy, tumultuous waters of the flooding Lot bordered by green, is one of a long series of views that the artist devoted to his adopted land, around Labastide-du-Vert, whose nuances he was able to capture throughout the day, and whose metamorphoses through the seasons.