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LOOK at ME ! Paintings & Sculptures I N D E X G ale RI E A RY JA N LOOK AT ME ! PAINTINGS & SCULPTURES IND E X ALFRED DE DREUX EUGEN VON BLAAS ÉTIENNE ADOLPHE PIOT JEAN-EUGÈNE BULAND HIPPOLYTE BERTEAUX JOSEPH COOMANS ERNEST HÉBERT EDGARD MAXENCE JULES ABEL FAIVRE CHARLES LANDELLE GUSTAVE BOULANGER RUDOLF ERNST EMILE VERNET-LECOMTE ARTHUR STRASSER GUSTAV ADOLF MOSSA RAPHAËL DELORME PABLO PICASSO DORA MAAR PAUL GUILLAUME VILMOS HUSZÁ R JEAN DUBUFFET ADAM STYKA YAN PEI-MING RENÉ GRUAU FRANÇOIS-XAVIER LALANNE ALFRED DE DREUX 1810 - 1860 SUDANE S E GR O O M RIDING A W H I T E H ORSE Oil on canvas signed lower right Dimensions : 18 1/8 x 13 in. Faithful to the teaching of his master Théodore Géricault, Alfred De Dreux was one of the main representatives of the « animal portrait ». Particularly fascinated with Arabian horses, he made splendid portraits of African riders with richly adorned horses. Alfred De Dreux enjoyed a national and international reputation and was honored by numerous official commissions. His portrait of the Duke of Orleans was awarded in 1844 with a second-class medal at the Salon des Artistes Français. He was appointed Knight of the Legion of Honor in 1857. EUGEN VON BLAAS 1843 - 1931 PORTRAIT OF MADAME LEBRETON Oil on canvas signed and dated 1908 upper right Dimensions : 88 5/8 x 45 5/8 in. This full-length portrait made in 1908 presents Mrs Lebreton with an elegant black dress and fine jewelry. Son of the Austrian painter Karl Von Blaas, Eugen Von Blaas specialised in women, bourgeois and aristocrats’ portraits. The painter captured with talent the fresh complexion and the intense emotions of her face. During a Mostra in Venice, the art critic Luigi Chirtani described the paintings of Eugen Von Blaas as « beautiful, flattering, neat, cherished, clean, polished » stating that the artist was then « the favorite portraitist of the Venitian aristocrats ». ETIENNE ADOLPHE PIOT 1850 - 1910 SOAP BUBBLES Oil on canvas signed lower left Dimensions : 33 1/2 x 25 5/8 in. Delightful and elegant, this painting presents a young girl playing with a cup of bubbles. The fragility of the bubbles reflects the transience of beauty and childhood. A genre painter and a woman portraitist, Etienne-Adolphe Piot studied with Léon Cogniet who conveyed his taste for « human forms ». With a great technique, Piot developed a glorified and sensitive image of women and young ladies of the 19th century. « Those who read know a lot ; those who look sometimes know more » Alexandre Dumas fils JEAN-EUGÈNE BULAND 1852 - 1926 T H E READING Oil on canvas signed and dated 1901 lower right Dimensions : 33 1/2 x 39 3/8 in. Two generations sit side by side. A young girl enthusiastically read to her grandmother. As in many of Buland’s paintings, all of the elements seem to be pushed to the front of the picture, as if in a frieze. His great attention to details and technical wizardry is evident in the spools of thread, patchwork of textiles and lace, the costumes and beautifully modelled faces. The careful arrangement of four hands positioned in the center of the canvas, drawn with photographic conviction and painted with naturalistic coloration, is an arresting display of Buland’s artistic ingenuity. « The gaze is the great weapon of virtuous coquetry. We can say everything with a look, and yet we can always deny a look » Stendhal HIPPOLYTE BERTEAUX 1843 - 1928 INCROYABLE IN THE ARTIST’S STUDIO Oil on canvas heightened with gold signed and dated 1886 lower right Dimensions : 65 3/4 x 38 1/2 in. This amazing portrait by Hippolyte Berteaux depicts a young man with a pipe posing in the artist’s studio. This full-length portrait, with a slight low-angle, the pose both self-assured and relaxed and the quite provocative look of the model, captivate the attention of the spectator. Student of Hippolyte Flandrin and Léon Cogniet, Hippolyte Berteaux studied history painting and specialised in genre scenes, making portraits and monumental decorations for the city of Nantes. JOSEPH COOMANS 1816 - 1889 SECRE T LOV E Oil on canvas signed and dated 1857 lower left Dimensions : 49 1/4 x 45 1/2 in. Joseph Coomans’career is characterized by an amazing diversity of subjects combining military scenes and more intimate genre scenes. Secret Love reveals all the sensuality of his palette, tempered by an academic style becoming more pregnant in 1857. The virtuosity of his technique is at its finest expression by the rendering of the flesh, hairstyles and fabrics. The daring of this subject is perfectly attenuated by the delicacy of the pictorial touch. ERNEST HÉBERT 1817 - 1908 MADONNA WITH CHILD Oil on canvas heightened with gold signed «EH» lower left Dimensions : 24 1/4 x 15 1/2 in. In front of a damask fabric, a Madonna with Child stares us intensely. The golden halos accentuate their impenetrable and captivating faces, highlighting the religious mystery. After a brilliant career and the obtention of the Prix de Rome in 1839, Ernest Hébert was appointed director of the Villa Medici. For the Universal Exhibition of 1839, the artist exhibited another religious painting named La Vierge de la Délivrance. « The eyes do not seize images, images are the ones who take hold of the eyes. They flood the conscience » Franz Kafka EDGARD MAXENCE 1871 - 1954 THE SOUL OF THE SP RING Tempera on panel heightened with gold signed and dated 1899 lower right Dimensions : 31 3/4 x 39 3/4 in. In a mysterious space, swirling with moss and crystals, a young woman with a diaphanous skin and half-closed eyes plays a lyre from which a stream seems to spring. Behind her, two women appear suddenly, appealed by the music. Lost since its presentation at the Salon des Artistes Français in 1899, this masterpiece entitled The Soul of the Spring shows the bright palette of the painter and the encaustic technique characteristic of Edgard Maxence. A similar work, The Soul of the Forest, conserved at the Fine Arts Museum of Nantes, shares the same Celtic and mystical influence. « Fleeting beauty by whose glance I was suddenly reborn, Will I see you no more before eternity ? » Charles Baudelaire JULES ABEL FAIVRE 1867 - 1945 SAPPHO Oil on canvas signed upper left Dimensions : 27 1/2 x 21 5/8 in. Her white skin shines under the light of the day. Opening her dark blue veil, the young woman offers to the spectator a mysterious and sensual view. The delicacy of her features and her long wavy hair look like those of Sappho, the Greek poetess. In the darkness, her half-closed eyes seem to ignore the spectator, reinforcing our fascination. Studying at the Académie Julian alongside Benjamin-Constant and Jules Lefebvre, Jules-Abel Faivre made numerous portraits of the bourgeoisie before becoming famous for his posters and caricatures during the Great War. Atypical in his production, this masterpiece reveals his exceptional painting skills through the amazing transparency of the veil and the subtle contrasts of light on the flesh. CHARLES LANDELLE 1821 - 1908 YOUNG J EW I S H W O M A N F R O M A LGI E RS Oil on canvas signed lower right Dimensions : 53 1/8 x 38 1/4 in. The pose of the model, her sensual look towards the spectator, the warm and vivid palette: everything in this picture is about seduction. Charles-Zacharie Landelle started making orientalist paintings after his official mission to Morocco in 1866. Fascinated by the new landscapes, the artist travelled across Egypt and the Nile in 1875 with the Egyptologist Auguste Mariette. For more than ten years, he used to stay every winter in Algeria, sharing his love for the country with the painters Auguste Renoir and Paul Leroy. His female portraits embody the grace and the beauty of oriental women. « The eyes have one language everywhere » George Herbert GUSTAVE BOULANGER 1824 - 1888 T H E P R AY E R Oil on canvas signed and dated 1871 lower left Dimensions : 13 x 9 3/4 in. In the mosque, these three men are depicted by Gustave Boulanger at different moments of the prayer. The intensity of their devotion fills the space that one can guess by the columns and the colored carpets. Student of Paul Delaroche and Pierre Jollivet, Gustave Boulanger brilliantly won the Prix de Rome in 1849. His long stay in Algeria influenced his subjects for the Salon and his creative work throughout his career. His neoclassic style and the choices of his orientalist subjects aroused numerous official commissions for the decoration of public buildings such as the Foyer de la danse of the Paris Opera. RUDOLF ERNST 1854 - 1932 T H E FAVO RITE Oil on panel signed lower left Dimensions : 18 1/4 x 14 1/2 in. From 1885 and his numerous trips to Orient, Rudolf Ernst completely dedicated himself to Orientalist painting, with scenes of everyday life and portraits of the Ottoman court. By a subtle depiction of the diversity of the materials and objects, Rudolf Ernst appears as a key figure of the Austrian orientalist school, which aimed to transcribe the exotic atmosphere of the Orient. RUDOLF ERNST 1854 - 1932 T H E M US I C I A N W O M A N Oil on panel signed and dated lower left Dimensions : 31 3/4 x 25 in. The intimacy of this harem scene is accentuated by the look of the musician towards the spectator, as well as by the soft, pale light passing through the window and touching the old man’s silver beard.
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