Tableaux et Dessins 1400-1900 incluant des œuvres d’une importante collection privée symboliste

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An Important Symbolist Collection: lots 78 to 123

Georges de Feure

The Two Friends

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November 13, 02:35 PM GMT

Estimate

6,000 - 8,000 EUR

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Description

Georges de Feure

Paris 1868 - 1943

The Two Friends

Gouache over traces of pencil on board

Signed lower left de Feure

460 x 380 mm ; 18⅛ by 15 in.

Tokyo, Odakyu Grand Gallery and Osaka, Daimaru Museum, Umeda, Georges de Feure, July-September 1990, no. 77.

I. Millman, Georges De Feure, Maître du Symbolisme et de l’Art Nouveau, Courbevoie 1992, pp. 292-293.

The two friends revisits Georges de Feure’s fascination for Sapphic love, in an Art Deco spirit. Ever since his first works thirty years earlier, which were particularly inspired by Baudelaire’s Fleurs du Mal, he had been exploring this theme in a Symbolist vein.

Between 1922 and 1923, Georges de Feure decorated the Maison de Couture Madeleine Vionnet. He devised antiquizing decorations to create a timeless feel. This painting, made in those same years, has a similar aesthetic.

Ian Millman has pointed out that the delicate pearly grey and pale pink pastel tones are reminiscent of the art of Marie Laurencin.

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