Lot 30
HENRI MANGUIN(1874-1949)Nature morte aux cyclamens
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HENRI MANGUIN (1874-1949)
Nature morte aux cyclamens
bears signature (upper right)
oil on canvas
38 3/8 x 51 5/16 in (97.5 x 130.3 cm)
Painted in 1912
亨利·芒更 (1874-1949)
《靜物與仙客來花》
有簽名 (右上)
油彩 畫布
38 3/8 x 51 5/16 英吋 (97.5 x 130.3 公分)
作於1912年
bears signature (upper right)
oil on canvas
38 3/8 x 51 5/16 in (97.5 x 130.3 cm)
Painted in 1912
亨利·芒更 (1874-1949)
《靜物與仙客來花》
有簽名 (右上)
油彩 畫布
38 3/8 x 51 5/16 英吋 (97.5 x 130.3 公分)
作於1912年
Footnotes
Provenance
Galerie E. Druet, Paris, no. 7553 (acquired from the artist in April 1913).
Willy Dubois Collection, Brussels, by 1946; his sale, Hôtel Rameau, Versailles, June 7-8, 1967, lot 19.
Sale: Parke-Bernet Galleries Inc., New York, April 3, 1968, lot 59.
Colonel C. Michael Paul Collection, Palm Beach; his Estate sale, Sotheby's, New York, February 21, 1985, lot 52.
Richard Green, London (acquired at the above sale).
Acquired from the above by the present owner in 1985.
Exhibited
Paris, Galerie E. Druet, Exposition Manguin, April 28 – May 10, 1913, no. 37.
Barcelona, La municipalité de Barcelone, Exposition d'arts français, 1917, no. 69.
Brussels, Galerie Giroux, Peintres français, October 1926.
Brussels, Galerie Giroux, l'Exposition Anniversaire pour les trente-cinq ans d'activité de la G.G.G., September – October 1946, no. 96.
Brussels, Galerie Giroux, Exposition de l'art vivant dans les collections privées belges, June 2-19, 1947, no. 54.
Literature
P. Cabanne, Henri Manguin, Neuchâtel, 1964, no. 114 (illustrated p. 128).
L. & C. Manguin & M.-C. Sainsaulieu, Henri Manguin, Catalogue raisonné de l'oeuvre peint, Neuchâtel, 1980, no. 406 (illustrated p. 163).
"A painting by Manguin is a concert of strong colors in which a true red dominates red-oranges, purple violets, deep blues, dark greens, and golden yellows. Lines, shapes, everything is strong. Everything is striking. It is an exalted painting that warms the heart and gives joy."
(Charles Terrasse quoted in J.-L. Ferrier, The Fauves: The Reign of Colour, Paris, 1992, p. 132).
Henri Manguin was primarily associated with the Fauve movement, working alongside artists such as Henri Matisse, André Derain and Raoul Dufy. He most notably employed pastel hues to depict beach scenes and nude bathers on the French Riviera, capturing vivid scenes of turquoise Mediterranean waters and lush green vegetation. Manguin spent much of his later life living in the south of France, and this fruit-laden table provides a glimpse into the domestic life of the artist shared with his young wife and muse, Jeanne Carette and their family and sumptuous depictions of the surrounding landscape.
Painted circa 1912, Nature morte aux cyclamens is a very rare, large-scale canvas, evoking the strong palette used by Manguin, Albert Marquet and Henri Matisse, who first banded together in a group studio in 1904 at the genesis of the Fauve movement. The strongest palpable association is with the works of his friend Henri Matisse, whose vivid layering of patterns and flattened perspective Manguin admired. For example, in Matisse's extraordinary Seville Still Life of 1910-1911, one can see the direct influence in the juxtaposition of the patterns adorning the tablecloth and setees. The still life at the heart of the composition, however, suggests Manguin's admiration for the work of Paul Cézanne. It was compositions such as this that would earn him glowing praise from Guillaume Appolinaire: "Well composed, Manguin's still lives please the eye more perhaps than the paintings. It is only in these compositions that his colorist's instinct can fully reveal itself without being constrained" (quoted in 'La Vie Artistique' in Exposition Manguin, L'Intransigeant, June 14, 1910).
