Simon Albert Bussy
Toucan
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Simon Bussy
Dole 1870 - 1954 London
Toucan
Pastel on paper laid down on board
Monogrammed lower right SB; titled on the reverse Le Toucan
Sheet: 218 x 149 mm; Board: 24,2 x 18,5 cm ; 9½ by 7¼ in.
Collection Jean-Etienne and Edmonde Huret, Paris.
Stockholm, Prins Eugens Waldemarsudde, Simon Bussy 1870-1954, 1999, no. 87.
This toucan with its beak raised is typical of the oeuvre of Simon-Albert Bussy, a French artist married to Dorothy Strachey, sister of the writer Lytton Strachey; like his wife, Bussy was close to the Bloomsbury Group in London. He specialized in depicting animals, mostly in pastel, drawn in flat areas of colour on a neutral ground, simplified to an extent that is almost Symbolist. Bussy was particularly interested in parrots, for which he used the whole range of bright colours that could be expressed with pastel. Today, his works can be found in museums such as the Musée National d’Art Moderne in Paris and the Tate Gallery in London.