“According to Petra ten-Doesschate Chu, “Martin owed his success to the development of a painting style that melded traditional and modernist elements. While he valued and relied upon his solid academic training, he was also quite attracted to the innovations of the Impressionists and Neo-Impressionists. With the former group, especially Claude Monet, he shared an overriding preoccupation with the suggestive rendering of the effects of light and atmosphere in painting. From the latter, he adopted the pointillist or ‘divisionist’ brushwork which, he felt, was most suitable to that purpose. He had little use for the scientific theories that underlay Neo-Impressionism and developed a personal form of pointillism that lacked a prescribed method. Indeed, when he first adopted divisionism in 1889, he is rumored to have said, ‘It ought not to become a system, it would become quite boring.’ To Martin, divisionism was always a means to an end—to capture the effects of light and color in nature as he saw them” (Eden Close at Hand, The Paintings of Henri Martin, Los Angeles, 2005, p. 10).

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