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The Joy of Shipwrecks V, 2004
Oil on canvas, signed and dated lower left, titled on an artist’s label affixed to the back
145 x 114 cm
Daniele Perré studio sale, Audap-Mirabaud, Paris, 5 October 2015, lot 74.
The work is listed on Danièle Perré’s website.
“Danièle Perré draws inspiration from shipwrecks washed ashore by the sea—the keel of a boat stuck in the sand by the whims of the waves, tree roots torn from some distant continent by the currents and washed up on our shores […] The strange shapes of these gnarled, barkless stumps, stripped bare with an obscene nakedness, the inert, putrid, monstrous mass of these boat wreckage, provide Danièle Perré with creative stimuli, the pleasure and torment of inventing, from reality, these fantastical objects, these powerful assemblages of lines and colours that she is exhibiting today, after years of silence, toil and thankless patience.”
Frank Elgar, 1975, Danièle Perré exhibition at the Galerie Soleil, Paris.