Paysage

Details

Georges Valmier (1885-1937)
Paysage
signed 'G. VALMIER' (lower centre)
oil on canvas
32 x 39 5/8 in. (81.3 x 100.7 cm.)
Painted in 1920

Provenance

Galerie l'Effort Moderne (Léonce Rosenberg), Paris, acquired directly from the artist (no. 7180).
Private collection, Paris, by whom acquired in the 1980s.

Literature

L. Rosenberg (ed.), Bulletin de l'Effort Moderne, Paris, June 1924, no. 6 (illustrated n.p.).
L. Marceillac, Georges Valmier, Paris, 1977, no. 31 .
D. Bazetoux, Georges Valmier Catalogue Raisonné, Paris, 1993, no. 229, p. 88 (illustrated).

Sale Room Notice

Please note that the last line of provenance should read: 'Private collection, France, by whom acquired in the 1980s' and not as stated in the printed catalogue.

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Lot Essay

'It is not a question of simply making what one sees, but of feeling, of completely understanding what is, and this in order to make something utterly different from that which already exists and of which your eyes can only perceive a limited proportion'
Georges Valmier, in Bulletin de l'Effort Moderne, July 1925.

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