Émile-Othon Friesz

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Description

Émile Othon Friesz
L'ESTAQUE
Signed and dated Othon Friesz 07 (lower left)
Oil on cradled panel
18 1/8 by 21 5/8 in.
46 by 55 cm

Provenance

Galerie Pétridès, Paris
Private Collection

Exhibited

Los Angeles County Museum of Art; New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art; London, The Royal Academy of Art, The Fauve Landscape, 1990-91, no. 79

Literature

Judi Freeman, The Fauve Landscape, New York, 1990, illustrated pl. 51
Robert Martin and Odile Aittouarès, Émile Othon Friesz, L’Oeuvre Peint, vol. 1, Paris, 1995, no. 40, illustrated p. 63 (incorrectly catalogued as oil on canvas)

Catalogue 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" (John Elderfield, Fauvism and its Affinities, New York, 1976, p. 79). The present work is one of 14 paintings executed in L’Estaque, just west of Marseilles, in the South of France.

Fig. 1 Georges Braque, Le port de l'Estaque, l'embarcadère