HENRY ÉMILE VOLLET (1861-1945)

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HENRY ÉMILE VOLLET (1861-1945)
Commémoration à la stèle d'un lettré (Tonkin) Oil on canvas, signed lower left 27 1/2 x 33 1/2 in. EXPOSITION Du Fleuve rouge au Mékong : visions du Viet Nam, Musée Cernuschi, Paris, 20 septembre 2012 - 27 janvier 2013 BIBLIOGRAPHIE Shimizu Christine (dir.), Du Fleuve rouge au Mékong : visions du Viet Nam, Musée Cernuschi, Paris, 20 septembre 2012 - 27 janvier 2013, p.25 PROVENANCE Vente Tajan, Paris, 26 janvier 2000 Collection privée, Paris HENRY EMILE VOLLET Born in 1861, Henry Emile Vollet was a pupil of Fernand Cormon, a painter who taught several famous artists in his studio at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts, including Vincent van Gogh, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec and Lin Fengmian. Vollet was much acclaimed by the artistic milieu of his time, receiving a special award at the 1888 Salon des Artistes Français, and the bronze medal at the Universal Exhibition of 1900. He featured Vietnamese scholars in several of his paintings: an intellectual subject close to the history painting that made his name. He used a Western technique and based his style closely on the Impressionists and the Nabis to convey the traditional solemnity of this scene, where the intense colours of the clothing contrast with the soft shades of the surrounding vegetation.  
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