Carole Pinto Fine Arts

D’Espagnat revolted early on to traditional academic formalities, and joined fellow avant-garde painters in Paris in creating radically new art movements that  emphasized the use pf light and color. He continued the tradition of Cezanne by flattening the pictorial surface, and added emotional contact through highly contrasted,chromatic harmonies.  

D'Espagnat worked with Picasso, Matisse, Pissarro, Chagall, Signac, and Bonnard, and regularly exhibited at the Salon des Refuses and the Salon des Independents in Paris, both of which featured paintings that had been formally rejected by the established academic jury. 

The renown Galerie Durand-Ruel  gave him his first one man show in 1898, and a major retro- spective was held at the prestigious Salon d’Automne in 1951.

D’Espagnat understood painting to be the language of chromatic juxtaposition and inner light.  His body of work is highly lyrical and infused with tenderness and intimacy in its depiction of languorous nudes, young children with bonnets or colorful floral arrangements.  His distinctive style borrows from the Fauve and Nabis movements, replacing bold, expressive compositions  with works exuding  internal gracefulness and poetic harmony.