Georges de Feure

Gouache fusain pastel aquarelle

La photographie du catalogue est légèrement trop claire. La feuille n'est pas contrecollée et gondole légèrement par endroit Les couleurs ont été légèrement insollées. The photography is slightly lighter than the drawing himself. The sheet is not laid down and a few wraps are visible. The colours are slightly faded
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Ce paysage est à rapprocher d'une gouache titrée Le jardin de l'artiste à Bois-le-Roi, datant de 1900-1902 (collection particulière).En 1903, Georges de Feure expose cent-cinquante oeuvres à l'Art Nouveau Bing. Dès lors, il n'exposera plus que des paysages. "Si, grâce à ses activités d'affichiste, de peintre symboliste et de décorateur Art Nouveau (...) il faisait partie de l'avant-garde, ses paysages ne relèvent ni de l'impressionnisme, ni de Gauguin et de l'école de Pont-Aven, ni des Nabis. Pourtant, ils ont leur propre modernité où, comme dans le reste de son oeuvre, l'influence grandissante de l'art japonais commence à se faire sentir "(cf, Ian Millman, Georges de Feure maître du symbolisme et de l'Art Nouveau, ed ACR, 1992, p.179).

This landscape is to be assimilated to another watercolor by the artist, Le jardin de l’artiste à Bois-le-Roi, dating from 1900-1902 (private collection). In 1903, Georges de Feure showcased a hundred and fifty works including fifty landscapes; a novelty in the artist’s work. From that point on, he only exhibited landscape paintings. “If, by means of being a poster artist, a symbolism painter and an Art Déco decorator (...), he was part of the avant-garde, his landscapes belong to neither the impressionism, nor Gauguin and the Pont-Aven school, nor the Nabis. Yet, they are modern in their own way, and as such as for the rest of his work, the growing influence of Japanese art is more palpable”. (cf, Ian Millman, Georges de Feure maître du symbolism et de l’Art Nouveau, ed ACR, 1992, p.179)