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Lot 59: EMILE BERNARD (1868-1941)

Emile Bernard - 1868-1941

Auction House: Christie's

Auction Location: France

Auction Date: 2006

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Artist or Maker: EMILE BERNARD (1868-1941)

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Description: Femme à Saint-Briac
daté et situé 'St. Briac 20 juin' (en bas au centre)
huile sur toile
55.5 x 46.5 cm. (21 7/8 x 18 1/4 in.)
Peint à Saint-Briac, le 20 juin 1886

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Provenance: Monsieur et Madame Adolphe Stern, New York.
Vente, Sotheby Parke Bernet Inc., New York, 20 juin 1981, lot 71.
Acquis au cours de cette vente par le propriétaire actuel.

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Exhibited: Mannheim, Städtische Kunsthalle et Amsterdam, Van Gogh Museum, Emile Bernard, 1868-1941. A Pioneer of Modern Art, mai-novembre 1990, p. 141, no. 20 (illustré).
Indianapolis Museum of Art; Baltimore, The Walters Art Gallery; Montreal Museum of Fine Arts; Memphis, The Dixon Gallery and Gardens; San Diego Museum of Art; Portland Art Museum; et Boston, Museum of Fine Arts, Gauguin and the School of Pont-Aven, septembre 1994-septembre 1996, p. 63, no. 31 (illustré en couleur).

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Published: J.-J. Luthi, Emile Bernard, catalogue raisonné de l'oeuvre peint, Paris, 1982, p. 10, no. 47 (illustré; daté '1887').

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Notes: COLLECTION PRIVEE EUROPEENNE

En 1886, Emile Bernard se fait renvoyer de l'atelier de Fernand Cormon à Paris pour cause de désaccord avec l'enseignement trop académique de ce dernier. Il décide alors de se rendre en Bretagne où il fait notamment la connaissance de Louis Anquetin, avec lequel, après avoir étudié les estampes japonaises, il met au point un "simplisme" personnel et très coloré, posant ainsi les bases du synthétisme. Cette Femme à Saint-Briac, exécutée l'année de son arrivée en Bretagne, illustre bien les changements qui s'opèrent alors dans la manière de peindre de l'artiste. En effet, si certaines réminiscences pointillistes subsistent, les prémisses du cloisonnisme se font sentir.

In 1886, Emile Bernard was dismissed from Fernand Cormon's studio over a disagreement regarding his academic teaching methods. It was at this moment the artist left for Brittany, whereupon he met Louis Anquetin. Strongly influenced by Japanese prints, the two artists defined a colourful "simplisme", which would later become the basis for "synthétisme". Femme à Saint-Briac, executed during the year of his arrival in Brittany, is a transitional painting in Bernard's work. While certain traces of pointillism remain, the early stages of "synthétisme" are plainly visible.

'WOMAN AT SAINT-BRIAC'; DATED AND SITUATED LOWER CENTER; OIL ON CANVAS.

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