The Tragic Trajectory of Armand Doré To look at the work of Armand Doré is to witness a specific kind of French provincialism that vanished long before the modern era took hold. He was a painter of the landscape, a man whose brush captured the salt and wind of the coast, yet his own life followed a much darker, more turbulent path than the scenes he rendered. While his contemporaries were shifting the foundations of art, Doré remained…