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PROPERTY OF A PRIVATE INDIANA COLLECTION

1879-1949
ARBRES, AUTOMNE

measurements
32 by 25 5/8 in.

alternate measurements
81 by 65 cm

Signed and dated Othon Friesz 06 (lower right)

Oil on canvas

PROVENANCE

Mrs. Rouen Pedron (acquired from the artist)
Maurice Laffaille, Paris
Private Collection, Paris
Jason Bloom, New York
Acquired from the above in the late 1970's

LITERATURE

Robert Martin and Odile Aittouarès, Émile Othon Friesz, L'Oeuvre Peint, vol. 1, Paris, 1995, no. 252, illustrated p. 120

NOTE

The Havrais painter Friesz was one of the last artists to join the Fauve movement. In 1905 he was still painting in an essentially Impressionist manner and it was only in Antwerp in 1906 with Braque that he really began to develop as a Fauve painter. John Elderfield states, "In 1906, Braque and Friesz were not even at the stage of colorful subjects... It was only when the pair traveled south, as their colleagues had done before, that their color was fully liberated from the atmospheric and the impressionist and their Fauve styles were fully established" (J. Elderfield, Fauvism and its Affinities, New York, 1976, p). The present work was probably painted in Normandy after shortly after his return from the South of France.
Fig 1. From left: Maurice Lesiere, Raoul Dufy, Lemperiere, Friesz