Masterpiece: The House by the Sea, Ca 1920, Avant Garde Bloomsbury Group Artist Cubist Jean Hippolyte Marchand Oil on Canvas

Name: Masterpiece: The House by the Sea, Ca 1920, Avant Garde Bloomsbury Group Artist Cubist Jean Hippolyte Marchand Oil on Canvas
Brand: Antique
SKU: SA1004644
Availability: SoldOut

1900 - 1920

Sold by Skippings Fine Arts

Description

It is fascinating how a painting with so many round shapes can appear so cubist. To my mind, it's because the artist is much more interested in the forms and volumes he sees than in the geographic location he depicts. This gives the landscape a wonderful "unreal" feel - almost as if it belonged to a folk or fairlytale. And this while it couldn't be more modernist!

It is a work by Jean Marchand, one of the leading artists of his generation. Marchand (1882-1941) was fauve and cubist painter, printmaker and illustrator who became closely linked to the Bloomsbury Group.

In 1910, his painting Still Life with Bananas was exhibited in the 1910 "Manet and Post-Impressionism" show organised by Roger Fry, also shown in 1912 in a second exhibition organised by Fry with Clive Bell at the Grafton Galleries in London.

Paintings by Jean Marchand are in the collections of the Courtauld, the Tate, and in numerous museums in Britain and worldwide. The National Gallery of Ireland owns five oils by Marchand. In France, works by the artist are in the Museum of Modern art of the City of Paris as well as in the Museums of Lyon, Marseille, Troyes, Grenoble, Céret, Besançon and Saint Tropez.

Dating from the 1920s, our oil on canvas measures 54 x 73 cm, and is signed at the lower right. The overall size in a hand carved "Montparnasse" frame is 69 x 91 cm.

Physical Dimensions

Height

54cm (21.26")

Width

73cm (28.74")

Depth

1cm (0.39")

Declaration

Skippings Fine Arts has dated this piece to the 1920s.

Reference Numbers

Sellingantiques Reference

SA1004644

Dealers Notes

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Description

It is fascinating how a painting with so many round shapes can appear so cubist.

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To my mind, it's because the artist is much more interested in the forms and volumes he sees than in the geographic location he depicts.

Skippings Fine Arts

This gives the landscape a wonderful "unreal" feel - almost as if it belonged to a folk or fairlytale. And this while it couldn't be more modernist!

fig 1. Masterpiece: the house by the sea, ca 1920, avant garde Bloomsbury group artist cubist Jean Hippolyte Marchand oil on canvas — fig 1. Masterpiece: The House by the Sea, Ca 1920, Avant Garde Bloomsbury Group Artist Cubist Jean Hippolyte Marchand Oil on Canvas

It is a work by Jean Marchand, one of the leading artists of his generation. Marchand (1882-1941) was fauve and cubist painter, printmaker and illustrator who became closely linked to the Bloomsbury Group.

fig 2. Masterpiece: the house by the sea, ca 1920, avant garde Bloomsbury group artist cubist Jean Hippolyte Marchand oil on canvas — fig 2. Masterpiece: The House by the Sea, Ca 1920, Avant Garde Bloomsbury Group Artist Cubist Jean Hippolyte Marchand Oil on Canvas

In 1910, his painting Still Life with Bananas was exhibited in the 1910 "Manet and Post-Impressionism" show organised by Roger Fry, also shown in 1912 in a second exhibition organised by Fry with Clive Bell at the Grafton Galleries in London.

fig 3. Masterpiece: the house by the sea, ca 1920, avant garde Bloomsbury group artist cubist Jean Hippolyte Marchand oil on canvas — fig 3. Masterpiece: The House by the Sea, Ca 1920, Avant Garde Bloomsbury Group Artist Cubist Jean Hippolyte Marchand Oil on Canvas

Paintings by Jean Marchand are in the collections of the Courtauld, the Tate, and in numerous museums in Britain and worldwide. The National Gallery of Ireland owns five oils by Marchand. In France, works by the artist are in the Museum of Modern art of the City of Paris as well as in the Museums of Lyon, Marseille, Troyes, Grenoble, Céret, Besançon and Saint Tropez.

Dating from the 1920s, our oil on canvas measures 54 x 73 cm, and is signed at the lower right. The overall size in a hand carved "Montparnasse" frame is 69 x 91 cm.