Auguste Louis Roure (26 April 1878, Avignon – 1936) was French painter, known as the "Painter of the Garrigues". He painted the garrigue (Mediterranean brush landscape) in a Fauve style.

Auguste Roure was born in Bolle in a modest family. The death of his father forced him to enter as an apprentice engraver in a printing shop where he revealed his artistic talents. His elder brother admitted him to the Ecole des Beaux-Arts d´avignon. He became a pupil of the director Pierre Grivolas who quickly appointed him professor.

This promotion allows the young man to be able to marry and leave the printing press. Now able to live from his painting, he travelled the Vaucluse on a bicycle during his leisure time, easel on his back. It was during these excursions that he painted his painting the Ventoux seen from the heights of Malaucène kept at the Palais du Roure in Avignon. When he left the Garrigues, he joined the Var coast and the seaside, which became his two other privileged pictorial themes.

He exhibits at the Galerie Roche de Marseille and in the Parisian salons. From 1907, he exhibited at the Salon des Indépendants and the Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts in Marseilles, as well as in Lyons, Geneva, London, New York, Tokyo and Melbourne.

Literature: E. Benezit " Dictionary of painters, sculptors, decorators and etchers"(in French), Paris, 1999; Thieme/Becker, Leipzig,1999.

Inscription: signed lower left

Technique: oil on canvas. Gallery frame.

Measurements: unframed w 18 1/8" x h 15" (46 x 38 cm); framed w 23" x h 19 7/8" (58,5 x 50,5 cm)

Condition: in very good condition.