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Henri MANGUIN (1874-1949)
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Henri MANGUIN (1874-1949)
Springtime at the Reinerie, 1944
Oil on canvas, signed lower right
50.5 x 61 cm
19 7/8 x 24 in.
PROVENANCE
Allard, Paris (acquired from the artist in 1945)
Private collection, Paris
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Lucile and Claude Manguin, Henri Manguin, Catalogue raisonné de l'oeuvre peint, Ides et Calendes, Neuchâtel, Switzerland, 1980, n°1223, p. 377
HENRI MANGUIN
"Father Manguin" as his faithful friends Matisse and Marquet called him, Henri Manguin was one of the early Fauves. Trained in Gustave Moreau's studio at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris, he perfected his technique by copying the Old Masters. Moreau's free and open teaching enabled him to distinguish himself very quickly at the famous Salon d'Automne of 1905. Manguin exhibited five works in the famous Room VII, which the critic Louis Vauxcelles described as the "cage of fauvists", heralding a new movement: Fauvism.
Throughout his life, Manguin explored the two subjects that fascinated him most of all: his wife and nature. If at the beginning of the century, his technique was made of large flat tones with very coloured tones, the artist refined and specified his touch over the years. A colorist at heart, rarely mixing tones before applying them, Manguin's palette is lively and joyful. Yellows, greens, violets, oranges dance on the canvas and bring a cheerfulness that few artists manage to retranscribe. Colour remains the subject of his works. In the constant search for harmony, light is the foundation. This particular luminosity, that of the sun
of the sun, of the soft heat is emblematic of the landscape paintings of the artist.
Spring at the Reinerie, painted in 1944, bears witness to the maturity acquired by the artist. The Fauvist period of 1905 has been abandoned in order to retain only the essential: the colour, the light, the harmony but also the spring beauty of this landscape. La Reinerie, his daughter Lucile's property in the Vallée de Chevreuse, embodies the family happiness of Manguin, a proud family man. The harmoniously constructed palette offers a wide range of colours: mauve, sky blue, chick yellow, ochre, fir green. Thanks to a skilfully mastered technique, a happy eye but also a spontaneous touch, Manguin offers a moment of happiness, of joy far from the tumult of the War marking this year 1944.
Springtime at the Reinerie, 1944
Oil on canvas, signed lower right
50.5 x 61 cm
19 7/8 x 24 in.
PROVENANCE
Allard, Paris (acquired from the artist in 1945)
Private collection, Paris
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Lucile and Claude Manguin, Henri Manguin, Catalogue raisonné de l'oeuvre peint, Ides et Calendes, Neuchâtel, Switzerland, 1980, n°1223, p. 377
HENRI MANGUIN
"Father Manguin" as his faithful friends Matisse and Marquet called him, Henri Manguin was one of the early Fauves. Trained in Gustave Moreau's studio at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris, he perfected his technique by copying the Old Masters. Moreau's free and open teaching enabled him to distinguish himself very quickly at the famous Salon d'Automne of 1905. Manguin exhibited five works in the famous Room VII, which the critic Louis Vauxcelles described as the "cage of fauvists", heralding a new movement: Fauvism.
Throughout his life, Manguin explored the two subjects that fascinated him most of all: his wife and nature. If at the beginning of the century, his technique was made of large flat tones with very coloured tones, the artist refined and specified his touch over the years. A colorist at heart, rarely mixing tones before applying them, Manguin's palette is lively and joyful. Yellows, greens, violets, oranges dance on the canvas and bring a cheerfulness that few artists manage to retranscribe. Colour remains the subject of his works. In the constant search for harmony, light is the foundation. This particular luminosity, that of the sun
of the sun, of the soft heat is emblematic of the landscape paintings of the artist.
Spring at the Reinerie, painted in 1944, bears witness to the maturity acquired by the artist. The Fauvist period of 1905 has been abandoned in order to retain only the essential: the colour, the light, the harmony but also the spring beauty of this landscape. La Reinerie, his daughter Lucile's property in the Vallée de Chevreuse, embodies the family happiness of Manguin, a proud family man. The harmoniously constructed palette offers a wide range of colours: mauve, sky blue, chick yellow, ochre, fir green. Thanks to a skilfully mastered technique, a happy eye but also a spontaneous touch, Manguin offers a moment of happiness, of joy far from the tumult of the War marking this year 1944.