Skippings Fine Arts has dated this piece to the 1910s.
One of the leading artists of his generation.
Born in 1883 of an old Parisian family that had never supposed one of its sons could become a painter, he found himself, aged eighteen, left to make his way in the world unaided. He entered the Ecole des Beaux Arts, and frequented the studios of Bonnat and Luc-Olivier Merson. He subsequently studied with Henri Martin. One of his comrades in the Ecole and the studios was Raoul Dufy.
Marchand exhibited at the Salon d'Automne, the Salon des Indépendants and the Section d'Or.
In 1910, his painting Still Life with Bananas was exhibited in the 1910 "Manet and Post-Impressionism" show organised by Roger Fry. It was also shown in 1912 in a second exhibition organised by Fry with Clive Bell at the Grafton Galleries in London. Crane Kalman Gallereries in London organised a major retrospective of the artist in 1967.
Paintings by Jean Marchand are in the collections of the Courtault, the Tate, and in numerous museums in Britain and worldwide. The National Gallery of Ireland owns five oils by the artist.
What is so exciting about the elegant drawing presented here is that it is a rare early work, relating to the Bloomsbury period of the artist.
Measuring 22.5 x 32 cm, the drawing is signed and dated 1907 at the lower right. The overall framed size in an antique natural hardwood frame is 47 x 55 cm.
Skippings Fine Arts has dated this piece to the 1910s.
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Bloomsbury Group Artist 1907 Paris Riverscape Barges on the Seine: Jean Hippolyte Marchand (1883–1941) Graphite on Paper Drawing
