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ANTIQUE #SA1119159

Masterpiece: Fauve Animated Harbour Scene, Ca 1910, The South Of France, Georges Dusfrenoy French Oil On Canvas

£3,200    $4,045    €3,841
Like all great art, this painting works on many levels. You can enjoy the bold, fauve
 
composition as a whole, or focus on different parts of the painting, where there is so much
 
to discover. I can''t get enough of studying the figures in the foreground, all individual and
 
dynamic: the couple and their little girl, the lady with the veil, the people on the jetty, the
 
sailor on his boat.
 
On the hill in the background, the houses are gorgeous abstracted patchwork of shades of
 
green, orange, brown and white, heralding cubism.
 
Georges Dufrénoy (1870-1943) was an artist who cared deeply about art. He was not
 
interested in fame, gimmicks, or building a cult around his personality. He decided to
 
become a painter aged 17, after some hesitating between architecture and art. Note how
 
his interest in architecture is evident from the construction of this painting.
 
Dufrénoy initially studied with Jean-Paul Laurens at the Académie Julian in Paris from
 
1887, and subsequently became the only pupil of Désiré Laugier. His early works, which
 
he started exhibiting in 1895, were very much influenced by Impressionism. His gallerist from then on was Druet, who had artists such as Bonnard, Derain, Friesz, Marquet, and Vuillard under contract.
 
Our view of the heart of the Port de Toulon dates from this period, circa 1910. As you can
 
see, Toulon is still just a fishing harbour. Look at it a few years later and you''ll find it having turned into a
 
major port, with ocean liners, battleships, and even submarines.
 
Works by Georges Dufrénoy are in the collections of the Pompidou Centre in France, the
 
Pushkin Museum in Moscow and the Hermitage in St Petersburg, the Royal Museum of
 
Modern Art in Brussels, The National Museum of Modern Art in Algiers, the Carnegie
 
Museum of Art in Pittsburgh and the Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery in the UK, to
 
name but few.
 
Our work by Dufrénoy is presented in a very special frame. It previously h...
Antique #SA1119159, shown on this page, originates from 1910. For historical context, the timeline below highlights the period when it was made:
1910
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