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Sunbathing, Ca 1910: Avant Garde Bloomsbury Group Artist Jean Hippolyte Marchand Dynamic Line Drawing No.4: A Day Off by the Sea.
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Sunbathing, Ca 1910: Avant Garde Bloomsbury Group Artist Jean Hippolyte Marchand Dynamic Line Drawing No.4: A Day Off by the Sea.

1900 - 1920
Sold 11 February 2025 · Skippings Fine Arts
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I was delighted to be able to acquire four works by one of my favourite artists, Jean Marchand (1882-1941). One of the leading artists of his generation, Marchand was fauve and cubist painter, printmaker and illustrator who became closely linked to the Bloomsbury Group. Works 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.

Our four china ink drawings represent summer activities on different days of the week: bundling hay, making haystacks, sunbathing. The may have been conceived with view to an almanac. What is wonderful about them is that they really feel alive, they are so dynamic and filled with energy.

With a very early 20th Century feel to them, they were probably created in the 1910s, the decade when Marchand was up-and-coming internationally.

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.

Here is the drawing Friday: a day off by the sea, titled on the reverse in French "Vendredi : Villégiature à la mer".

Signed at the lower right, the drawing measures 24 x 30 cm. The overall framed size with an exceptional mount in marqueterie is 40.5 x 47 cm.

Date of Manufacture

Skippings Fine Arts has dated this Jean Hippolyte Marchand Drawing to the 1910s.

Physical Dimensions
Height
24cm (9.45")
Width
30cm (11.81")
Depth
1cm (0.39")
Reference Numbers
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SA962037
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I was delighted to be able to acquire four works by one of my favourite artists, Jean Marchand (1882-1941).
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One of the leading artists of his generation, Marchand was fauve and cubist painter, printmaker and illustrator who became closely linked to the Bloomsbury Group.
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Works 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.

fig 1. An early twentieth-century black ink line drawing on paper depicting figures by the sea, signed J. Marchand in the lower left corner.
fig 1. Sunbathing, Ca 1910: Avant Garde Bloomsbury Group Artist Jean Hippolyte Marchand Dynamic Line Drawing No.4: A Day Off by the Sea.

Our four china ink drawings represent summer activities on different days of the week: bundling hay, making haystacks, sunbathing. The may have been conceived with view to an almanac. What is wonderful about them is that they really feel alive, they are so dynamic and filled with energy.

fig 2. An early twentieth-century black ink line drawing on paper depicting figures by the sea, signed J. Marchand in the lower left corner.
fig 2. Sunbathing, Ca 1910: Avant Garde Bloomsbury Group Artist Jean Hippolyte Marchand Dynamic Line Drawing No.4: A Day Off by the Sea.

With a very early 20th Century feel to them, they were probably created in the 1910s, the decade when Marchand was up-and-coming internationally.

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.

Here is the drawing Friday: a day off by the sea, titled on the reverse in French "Vendredi : Villégiature à la mer".

Signed at the lower right, the drawing measures 24 x 30 cm. The overall framed size with an exceptional mount in marqueterie is 40.5 x 47 cm.

Date of Manufacture

Skippings Fine Arts has dated this Jean Hippolyte Marchand Drawing to the 1910s.

Height
24cm (9.45")
Width
30cm (11.81")
Depth
1cm (0.39")
Reference Numbers
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SA962037
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Archive I An early twentieth-century black ink line drawing on paper depicting figures by the sea, signed J. Marchand in the lower left corner. SOLD6+ MONTHS AGO

Sunbathing, Ca 1910: Avant Garde Bloomsbury Group Artist Jean Hippolyte Marchand Dynamic Line Drawing No.4: A Day Off by the Sea.

Archive II An early twentieth-century black ink line drawing on paper depicting figures by the sea, signed J. Marchand in the lower left corner. View II
Archive III An early twentieth-century black ink line drawing on paper depicting figures by the sea, signed J. Marchand in the lower left corner. View III
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An early twentieth-century black ink line drawing on paper depicting figures by the sea, signed J. Marchand in the lower left corner.
Sunbathing, ca 1910: avant garde Bloomsbury group artist Jean Hippolyte Marchand dynamic line drawing No.4: a day off by the sea.
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An early twentieth-century black ink line drawing on paper depicting figures by the sea, signed J. Marchand in the lower left corner.
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  • Object[Drawing]
  • Period1900 - 1920
  • Style[Modernist]
  • Material[Paper, Ink]
  • Colour[Monochrome]
  • MotifsFigurative composition, Dynamic line work, Seaside scene
  • SizeH 24 cm (9 in) x W 30 cm (12 in) x D 1 cm (0 in)

The Bloomsbury Group style encompasses early twentieth-century British modernist art characterised by experimental forms, expressive line work, and a departure from strict academic realism.

These works were usually executed using black India ink or sepia wash applied to cream or off-white laid and wove paper substrates.

Authentication relies on examining period-appropriate paper ageing, signatures or monograms consistent with the artists known corpus, ink absorption characteristics, and provenance documentation.

Framing these works in minimalist wooden mouldings with acid-free neutral mounts allows the graphic quality of the ink to complement contemporary or traditional spaces.

Preservation requires framing behind UV-filtering glass, maintaining stable humidity levels, and hanging works away from direct sunlight to prevent paper degradation and ink fading.
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