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拍品專文
A disciple of Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque, De la Fresnaye joined the burgeoning Cubist movement in 1911. He had begun experimenting with this new idiom as early as 1910 and soon became an avid promoter of the Cubist cause. However, the artist was soon disillusioned with the static nature of Cubism's rigorous systems and the denial of color and the human presence. His vision of nature was much more lyrical, appealing to his classical and poetic spirit. What he did garner from Cubism was an overall sense of discipline and a way of working that allowed him to abstract and distill the essence of his subject matter.
Painted in 1912, La cheminée d'usine is one of a series of about fifteen landscapes De la Fresnaye executed between 1911 and 1912. It depicts the gently sloping hills on the outskirts of the town of Meulan. The chimney that gives the painting its name billows gray smoke which echoes the stylized clouds. Germain Seligman notes: "Now the landscape is organized in geometric masses, impressive in power and weight. Though the lyric or bucolic aspects of the lovely countryside are never entirely ignored, it is significant that the artist usually chooses a distant viewpoint, as though from a dominating hill…There is an increased sense of action, a suggestion of a human movement, still viewed from afar, but one senses it in the greater diversification of color and in the less static atmosphere suggested by the rising smoke and the moving clouds" (op. cit., p. 32).
One of the first owners of the present painting was John Quinn, a New York lawyer and prominent patron of twentieth century art. A baker's son from a small provincial town in Ohio, Quinn became a champion of the avant-garde. By the time he died, his collection included major works by Constantin Brancusi, Paul Cézanne, Henri Matisse and Pablo Picasso and had blossomed to over one thousand works of art. Following his death in 1924, his collection was sold in two auctions; one in Paris in 1926 and the other in New York in 1927.
Painted in 1912, La cheminée d'usine is one of a series of about fifteen landscapes De la Fresnaye executed between 1911 and 1912. It depicts the gently sloping hills on the outskirts of the town of Meulan. The chimney that gives the painting its name billows gray smoke which echoes the stylized clouds. Germain Seligman notes: "Now the landscape is organized in geometric masses, impressive in power and weight. Though the lyric or bucolic aspects of the lovely countryside are never entirely ignored, it is significant that the artist usually chooses a distant viewpoint, as though from a dominating hill…There is an increased sense of action, a suggestion of a human movement, still viewed from afar, but one senses it in the greater diversification of color and in the less static atmosphere suggested by the rising smoke and the moving clouds" (op. cit., p. 32).
One of the first owners of the present painting was John Quinn, a New York lawyer and prominent patron of twentieth century art. A baker's son from a small provincial town in Ohio, Quinn became a champion of the avant-garde. By the time he died, his collection included major works by Constantin Brancusi, Paul Cézanne, Henri Matisse and Pablo Picasso and had blossomed to over one thousand works of art. Following his death in 1924, his collection was sold in two auctions; one in Paris in 1926 and the other in New York in 1927.