Armand Jamar (1870-1946) - Countryside landscape

This impressionistic landscape painting by Armand Jamar dates from 1919. This early work by Jamar is in very good condition and is sold together with the frame. The painting will be well packaged for shipping.

- Artist: Armand Jamar (1870-1946)
- Medium: Oil on canvas
- Dimensions: 50 x 36 cm (frameless); 58 x 45 cm (with frame)
- Signed: lower left
- Dated: 1919
- Style: Impressionism

Armand Jamar (1870, Liège – 1946, Saint-Gilles) was a Belgian painter who became best known for his ability to dynamically alternate light and color fields (such as subtle red, blue and beige tones), especially in his landscape paintings and marine scenes.

Jamar began his career under the influence of French and Flemish impressionism, strongly inspired by masters such as Eugène Boudin and Emile Claus. He studied at the Academy of Liège, where he was a pupil of Evarist Carpentier, one of the earliest representatives of luminism in Belgium, and Adrien de Witte.

Also due to his travels through Europe, North Africa and the US, he developed in his later years a fierce, turbulent and very personal expressionist style with a free, powerful brushwork.
Jamar regularly exhibited at the prestigious Salon des Artistes Français in the Grand Palais in Paris, where he was distinguished with a Gold Medal. He worked in France, the Netherlands, Spain and Venice. In Belgium he worked mainly in the Ardennes and on the coast.

His works are included in the permanent collections of leading institutions, including museums in Brussels, such as the Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium, in Charleroi, in the Royal Museum of Fine Arts Antwerp (KMSKA), the MuMo in Sint-Jans-Molenbeek and the municipal collections of Ixelles, Schaerbeek and Saint-Gilles. Jamar is also represented in the museums in Rouen and Lille.

In the 1970s, decades after his death, his impact on Belgian art history was definitively sealed with a series of large-scale retrospective exhibitions in various Belgian municipalities, including Grimbergen and Deurle (in the Dhondt-Dhaenens Museum).