Rating and value of paintings by Jean Roger Sourgen

If you own a work by artist Jean Roger Sourgen or based on his work and would like to know its value, our state-approved experts and auctioneers will guide you. Our specialists will carry out a free appraisal of your work, and provide you with a precise estimate of its value on the current market. Thereafter, if you wish to sell your work, we will guide you towards the best possible arrangement to obtain the optimum price. 

Artist's rating and value

Characterized by bold, luminous compositions, Jean Roger Sourgen's works are highly popular with collectors. Their market value remains stable and high overall, especially in France. Some of the artist's works can fetch hundreds of thousands of euros at auction, as demonstrated by his painting Étang Landais, which fetched €110,000 in 2022, whereas it was estimated at between €20,000 and €30,000. 

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The artist's works and style

An artist who was active in the Landes region during the 20th century, Jean Roger Sourgen is a French painter influenced by the French Impressionists. His paintings are predominantly landscape scenes, representing reality fairly faithfully, yet using broad flat tints of paint and very pastel shades. He does not, however, claim to belong to any particular movement.

Jean Roger Sourgen : painting the Landes

Jean Roger Sourgen was a painter from the south of France born in 1883.

Very few details are known about his life and artistic output.

He mostly produced oils on canvas, most likely exhibited in the region from which he originated and where he evolved throughout his career : the Landes. His canvases are impressionistic, although in some respects realistic. He works with flat tints of color, similar in some respects to the Pointillists. His preferred color is green, the fact being that Landes landscapes are predominantly composed of trees - though he also uses a lot of violet, in order to faithfully retranscribe the landscapes, working on sunrise/sunset representations.

The works he painted in gouache are also highly prized, but achieve generally lower results than oils on canvas, this format being more sought-after by collectors.

He died in 1978 in the Landes.

Jean Roger Sourgen's imprint on his period

Jean Roger Sourgen did not make a lasting mark on his period on a national scale, and was not widely known during his lifetime. However, some collectors appreciated his work, and the majority of his canvases are kept in private homes. 

His signature

Not all of Jean Roger Sourgen's works are signed.

Although there are variants, here is a first example of his signature: 

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