Place Massena, Nice

細節

Guy Pène du Bois (1884-1958)
Place Massena, Nice
signed and dated 'Guy Pène du Bois 30' (lower left)
oil on canvas laid down on masonite
29 x 36 in. (73.7 x 91.4 cm.)

來源

The artist.
Estate of the above.
James Graham & Sons, New York.
Acquired by the present owner from the above, 2006.

出版

B. Fahlman, Guy Pène du Bois: Painter of Modern Life, exhibition catalogue, New York, 2004, pp. 41-42, 123, illustrated.
James Graham & Sons, Guy Pène du Bois: Painter of Modern Life, Part II--The Later Years, exhibition catalogue, New York, 2006, n.p., no. 19, illustrated.

展覽

New York, Kraushaar Galleries, Exhibition of Paintings and Watercolors by Guy Pène du Bois, February 26-March 15, 1930.
New York, James Graham & Sons, Guy Pène du Bois: Painter of Modern Life, Part II--The Later Years, May 11-June 30, 2006.

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拍品專文

Upon turning forty, Guy Pène du Bois decided to dedicate himself more fully to his art and in 1924 moved to Paris with his family. After initially struggling to develop his own pictorial vocabulary, he established a unique aesthetic mingling classical figurative subjects with distinctly modern narratives that brought him great acclaim. Plagued by periods of inactivity and in search of new inspiration, Pène du Bois moved his family to Nice in the fall of 1929. Despite the creation of a number of lively preliminary sketches of the town's beaches and cafés, the artist's portrayals of Nice and its inhabitants were limited to only three oil paintings, including the present work, due to his forced return to the United States in the spring of 1930.