Henri Le Sidaner (1862-1939)

Floraison

细节

Henri Le Sidaner (1862-1939)
Floraison
signed 'Le Sidaner' (lower left)
oil over pencil on canvas
35¼ x 45 7/8 in. (89.5 x 116.5 cm.)
Painted in Versailles, 1912

来源

Galeries Georges Petit, Paris.
Private collection, United States (by 1928).
Richard Green, London.
Acquired from the above by the present owner, circa 1993.

出版

C. Mauclair, Henri Le Sidaner, Paris, 1928, p. 108 (illustrated).
Y. Farinaux-Le Sidaner, Le Sidaner, l'oeuvre peint et gravé, Milan, 1989, p. 130, no. 290 (illustrated).

展览

Paris, Salon de la Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts, 1912, no. 857.
Pittsburgh, Carnegie Institute, April 1913, no. 165 (illustrated).

拍品专文

Floraison was executed in the fall of 1912 in Versailles--Le Sidaner's "favourite place of residence"--figuring among "an impressive group of paintings displayed at the [contemporary] Salon" (Y. Farinaux-Le Sidaner, ibid., pp. 17 and 35). Owing to the bitterly cold winters in Gerberoy, the artist would settle in Versailles shortly thereafter in 1914.

Le Sidaner preferred to depict the hours following midday which he appreciated for their subtle interplay of light and shadow. The cool tones that comprise the palette of Floraison permeate the scene with serenity. As Jacques Bashet noted in 1924, "Le Sidaner's oils bind and melt together in the highly delicate harmonies...contours seem to emerge from the interplay of light, and in this respect, [the artist] is similar to Claude Monet" (quoted in ibid., p. 37). Working in his refined, divisionist manner, Le Sidaner developed compositions in his studio after making careful study of his subject from nature. While his paintings convey an impression of spontaneity, closer scrutiny reveals their careful construction.