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Henri GervexFrench art by master, a Mediterraneen Woman, Oil signed.1852-1929
1852-1929
$5,086.92
£3,779.70
€4,250
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Dimensions 22 x 27 centimètres. Framed : 35 x 41 cm
Conditions: Very good Conditions, work in its original canvas with no signs of old restorations. Dimensions with the frame 36 x 41 cm, signed at the bottom left.
Description: This captivating painting presents an elegantly draped woman, standing confidently in front of a twilight landscape. The color palette, dominated by earthy hues and touches of pastel in the sky, creates an atmosphere that is both peaceful and mysterious. The rich texture of the brushstrokes gives life to the silky fabric of its dress, contrasting with the robustness of the surrounding rocks. The gilded frame enhances the classic aura of the work. The artist masters the light, playing on the contrast between the soft radiance of his skin and the shadow of the cliffs. The woman's gaze, immersed in a gentle contemplation, adds an introspective dimension to the whole. This work embodies a masterful fusion of beauty and strength, capturing the essence of timeless feminine charm and wild nature.
Biography:
Henri Gervex is the son of Joséphine Peltier and Félix Nicolas Gervex, a piano maker. A family friend admitted him to the studio of the painter Pierre-Nicolas Brisset in 1867.
Three years later, he enlisted in the 152nd Battalion of the National Guard. In 1871, he was accepted at the School of Fine Arts in Paris in the workshop of Alexandre Cabanel where he followed his teaching for five years as a fellow student of Jean-Louis Forain, Fernand Cormon and Eugène Damas.
He also apprenticed with the Orientalist painter Eugène Fromentin.
The beginnings:
Gervex began at the 1873 Salon by exhibiting a sleeping bather. The following year, he received a second-class medal for his Satyr playing with a maenad, whose nude is influenced by Cabanel's style, and was purchased by the State for the Luxembourg Museum.
In 1876, he met Édouard Manet and frequented the Impressionist painters. His painting is influenced by it and he brightens his palette.
The scandal of Rolla:
In 1878, he caused a scandal by exhibiting Rolla, considered his masterpiece.
Rolla (1878), Museum of Fine Arts of Bordeaux.
This painting, inspired by a poem by Alfred de Musset, was refused by the jury of the Salon for the same reasons as Manet's Olympia: representing a prosaic nude in a contemporary setting, the work is qualified as immoral.
It is exhibited in a gallery, at the dealer of paintings, at 41, rue de la Chaussée-d'Antin, where the crowd is rushing. Shortly before her disappearance in 1929, he had the satisfaction of seeing her enter the Luxembourg Museum.
He also makes the portrait of Miss Valtesse de La Bigne, a demi-socialite who poses as a model and who inspires Émile Zola for the creation of the heroine of his novel Nana.
Gervex himself is one of the models for the character of Fagerolles, an opportunistic and worldly painter, in the novel The Work of Zola, published in 1863.
In the 1880s, he traveled to Spain. He is part of the Circle of mirlitons chaired by Ernest Meissonier, and exhibits at the Artistic Circle of the Seine, which has just been created. From that year, he made numerous stays in Dieppe with Jacques-Émile Blanche's parents.
In 1882, he made his first trip to England with Auguste Rodin. He works on the decoration of the town hall of the 19th arrondissement of Paris. The following year, he made his second trip to England with Rodin and was appointed Knight of the Order of Leopold of Belgium on the occasion of the Triennial Exhibition of Fine Arts in Ghent.
In 1884, at the end of his third trip to England, he settled in a new workshop on rue de la Chaussée-d'Antin. He travels to Italy with Guy de Maupassant and G. Legrand.
He founded a painting academy with the painter Ferdinand Humbert, taking over the Cormon Workshop.
A recognized artist:
In 1889, Henri Gervex was promoted to officer of the Legion of Honor. In 1890, he was appointed Knight of the Order of St. Olaf by the King of Norway and Sweden. In 1891, he participated in the international exhibition of fine arts in Munich. In 1892, he was appointed an officer of the Order of St. Michael by the Bavarian Government.
On February 9, 1893, he married Henriette Marie Marguerite Fauche (1868-1958), a young girl from the Protestant bourgeoisie, who was a pupil of Charles Chaplin. He was appointed Knight of the Order of Charles III of Spain. On December 18, 1894, their daughter Colette (1894-1976) was born, who married Count René Henri Louis du Plessis d'argentré in 1920.
In 1895, he was appointed vice-president of the examination commission of the National Society of Fine Arts. He decorates the physics room of the Sorbonne in Paris.
In 1896, during his first trip to Russia, he was appointed Commander of the Order of St. Anne of Russia. In 1897, he made a cruise to Italy and then to Turkey. In 1898, he made a second trip to Russia. He sent the Coronation of Nicholas II to the Universal Exhibition of 1900. The same year, he participated in the decoration of the Golden room of the restaurant Le Train Bleu at the Gare de Lyon in Paris with The Battle of Flowers in Nice.
He makes frequent stays in Deauville and Trouville where he resides at the villa Les Frémonts on the cliff and which belongs to Mrs. Finaly, where Marcel Proust visits him several times.
In 1901, he left with his family for a third trip to Russia. In 1902, he made a cruise to Italy. In 1911, he was promoted commander of the Legion of Honor and received the order for the decoration of the ceiling of the staircase of honor of the Court of Auditors in Paris.
In 1913, he entered the Institut de France and was elected president of the Society of Pastellists.
An ambulance in Poitiers (1914), Nanterre, The Contemporary.
The Pope's Blessing (1916), Nanterre, The Contemporary.
During the First World War, Henri Gervex is too old to be mobilized. He then creates small works on wood or on canvas illustrating the daily life of the war and which are reproduced in the illustrated press such as The Gallic, The Illustration or The Herald Tribune. In an ambulance in Poitiers (also known as the Poitiers station ambulance in the press), Gervex represents nurses treating soldiers and thus highlights their difficult working conditions during the war. He also realizes The train of the wounded, published in the newspaper L'Illustration: "This painting has been seen by most of France, which will have had no other vision of the cruelties of war. (...) If the most seriously affected rested on bunks or bunk stretchers, those whom the major doctors had been able to classify among the "sitting wounded" traveled in vans filled with straw and they showed at each stop in the stations that they had lost none of their courage or their appetite. It was at this moment that the painter Gervex painted this scene that everyone could see in the small provincial stations, as in the large regulatory stations "6. The artist also produces drawings, gouaches or watercolors imbued with patriotism for newspapers such as The Mass in the Argonne Forest, The Salvation of the Hairy, The Double Harvest or the Esplanade of the Invalides. In 1916, Henri Gervex painted The Blessing of the Pope, a propaganda painting in which Russian soldiers in a trench are blessed by a pope. This official painting depicts the spiritual authority (the pope) and the heroic officer (the wounded soldier). To realize this work, the artist was inspired by a previous painting Ice Breakers on the Neva, executed during a trip to Russia8. Beyond painting the reality of war, Henri Gervex was part of several associations of aid to soldiers and was also a donor for a raffle for the benefit of the Soldier's Work in the Trenches at the Bernheim Gallery. In 1918, he was awarded the Croix de guerre for services rendered to the fatherland. In 1919, the painter participates in an exhibition at the Palais des Champs-Élysées realized for the benefit of war works and organized by the Society of French artists and the National Society of fine arts.
In 1925, he was elected associate member of the painting section of the Royal Academy of Sciences, letters and fine Arts in Brussels. He owns a mansion in Paris on the edge of the Monceau Park, whose yellow curtains in his daughter's room are often reproduced in his paintings.
In 1928, he suffered from an eye disease. He died in Paris on June 6, 1929 at 12, rue Roussel (current rue Léon-Jost), he was buried in the 55th division of the Père Lachaise Cemetery10,11.
Tribute:
Opened in 1932 on the site of bastions No. 46 and 47 of the Thiers enclosure, rue Gervex pays tribute to him in the 17th arrondissement of Paris.
Works in public collections:
Satyr playing with a bacchante (1874), Paris, Orsay Museum.
Coffee scene in Paris (1877), Detroit Institute of Arts.
Return from prom (around 1879), location unknown.
Allegory of Justice (1910), Paris, ceiling of the Cambon Palace.
United States
Detroit, Detroit Institute of Arts: Cafe scene in Paris, 1877, oil on canvas, 100.6 × 135.9 cm.
Philadelphia, Philadelphia Museum of Art: Portrait of Louis Pasteur, 1923, lithograph, 5.7 × 3.8 cm
Washington, National Gallery of Art: Study for an "Autopsy at the Hôtel-Dieu", 1876, oil on canvas, 53.3 × 43.2 cm
France
Angers, Museum of Fine Arts: Diane and Endymion, 1875, oil on canvas, 257 × 151 cm.
Bayonne, Bonnat-Helleu Museum: Study of a naked woman, oil on canvas, 23 × 14 cm.
Beaune, Museum of Fine Arts: Autumn Morning or Forest Edge of Fontainebleau, oil on canvas, 54 × 40.5 cm.
Bordeaux, Museum of Fine Arts :
Old man's back study, oil on canvas, 98 × 76.4 cm ;
Rolla (1878), oil on canvas, 176.2 × 221.3 cm.
The Mirror (circa 1880), oil on canvas, 65 x 54 cm.
Chambéry, Museum of Fine Arts
- Creator:Henri Gervex (1852-1929, French)
- Creation Year:1852-1929
- Dimensions:Height: 13.38 in (33.99 cm)Width: 9.05 in (22.99 cm)
- More Editions Sizes:13,38 x 9,05Price: $5,530
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- Condition:Excellent condition. Mint. Free US CONTINENTAL shipping, incl Europe and Asia.
- Gallery Location:PARIS, FR
- Reference Number:1stDibs: LU2804215593802
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