IMPRESSIONIST AND POST-IMPRESSIONIST PAINTINGS
FROM 9 TH OCTOBER 2024
RICHARD GREEN GALLERY, 147 NEW BOND STREET, LONDON W1S 2TS
Our gallery at 147 New Bond Street will display Impressionist and Post-Impressionist works in an exhibition that complements the theme of our stand at Frieze Masters (9th-13th October), with its selection of Modern and Post-War British Paintings. Spanning from the 1880s to the 1940s, the exhibition showcases works by Alfred Sisley, Eugène Boudin, Camille Pissarro, Francis Picabia and Albert Marquet, among others.
Maximilien Luce’s La maison de Suzanne Valadon, 1895, entwines the lives of two Montmartre radicals. The Anarchist Luce was born on the ramshackle hill, crucible of so much creativity. He and Suzanne Valadon – trapeze artist-turned artist’s model-turned successful painter – were at different times resident in the decaying seventeenth century mansion that is the focus of this work. The vivid colour palette, influenced by the Divisionist theories of Seurat, captures the essence of a sun-warmed, fertile Bohemia rising above the grime of northern Paris.
MAXIMILIEN LUCE
1858 - Paris - 1941
La maison de Suzanne Valadon
Signed and dated lower left: Luce . 95
Oil on canvas: 19 5/8 x 31 ¼ in / 49.8 x 79.2 cm
PIERRE-AUGUSTE RENOIR
Limoges 1841 - 1919 Cagnes
Femme dans un paysage, Cagnes
Signed lower left: Renoir
Oil on canvas: 16 x 19 5/8 in / 40.6 x 49.8 cm
HENRI MANGUIN
Paris 1874 - 1949 St Tropez
Nu sur un canapé
Signed lower left: Manguin
Oil on canvas: 19 3/4 x 24 1/8 in / 50.1 x 61.2 cm
Painted in Lausanne in 1915
FELIX VALLOTTON
Lausanne 1865 - 1925 Neuilly-sur-Seine
La Seine aux Andelys, le soir
Stamped with the signature and dated lower left: F. VALLOTTON. 24
Oil on canvas: 21 3/8 x 25 5/8 in / 54.3 x 65.1 cm
Pierre-Auguste Renoir’s Femme dans un paysage, Cagnes, c.1910-15, takes us very far from Renoir’s Impressionist roots. In 1907 he bought a small estate at Cagnes, near Nice. The Côte d’Azur light and fragrant maquis provided the inspiration for exuberant, timeless landscapes in which the play of colour almost drifts free from representation, taking upon itself the fluidity of music.
The Fauve painter Henri Manguin’s Nu sur un canapé was painted in 1915, when he was living in Lausanne to escape the First World War. Despite the wartime circumstances, he evokes a fierce joie de vivre with its rich, heightened hues, transforming a cluttered, bourgeois interior into the sensual lair of an odalisque. The painting’s first owner was an influential Swiss collector of avant-garde art, Dr Hans Schuler.
Swiss-born, Paris-based Félix Vallotton has been called the ‘Painter of Disquiet’. La Seine aux Andelys, le soir, 1924, pays homage to the monumental landscapes of his hero, Nicolas Poussin, who was born near Les Andelys in 1594. The painting abstracts the essence of a sunset as the colour leaches from the scene and the purple shadows gather. The dark mass of the Ile du Château looms in the gloaming in this gently melancholy, mesmerizing work.
For further information and images, please contact:
LAURA BERGUES
Richard Green Gallery
147 New Bond Street, London W1S 2TS +44 (0)207 529 2155 laurabergues@richardgreen.com
www.richardgreen.com