Loiseau, Gustave Paris 1865 - 1935 Peupliers au bord de l'Oise. Signed and dated bottom right: G. Loiseau 1908. Oil on canvas. 81,5 x 66cm. Framed. Verso: On the stretcher is the handwritten title as well as an old gummed label and stamp of the stretcher-manufacturer Bourgeois Ainé. The postimpressionist Gustave Loiseau worked in 1890, after his studies at the École des Beaux Art, close to Paul Gaugin in Pont-Aven. Here he was also acquinted with Maufra and Émile Bernard. From 1893 onward he exhibited in the Salon des Independantes and from 1895 onward in the Salon de la Société Nationale de Beaux-Arts in Paris. Furthermore he participated, under the influence of Pisarro and Seurat, in the exhibitions of the postimpressionists between 1890 and 1896. Loiseaus' compositions indeed often shows the geometric structure as borrowed from Gaugin's cloisonnism, yet distinguishes itself through softer netted brushstrokes. In his landscapes and marines he displays his love for colours quite unusual for its time, which he, similar to Henri E. Cross, constrasts with one another. His motifs stems mostly from the streets of Paris, the banks of the Seine and the Oise as well as the cliffline of Dieppe and the dale of the Dordogne.