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ANDRÉ LHOTE | Gypsy's Bar
估價
10,000 - 15,000 GBP
已售出
40,000 GBP
招標截止
描述
- André Lhote
- Gypsy's Bar
- signed A. Lhote (lower right)
- gouache and watercolour on paper
- 17 by 21.9cm., 6 5/8 by 8 1/2 in.
- Executed in 1917.
來源
P. Stoebel, France
Sale: Christie's, South Kensington, 29th November 1993, lot 55
Purchased at the above sale by the present owner
Sale: Christie's, South Kensington, 29th November 1993, lot 55
Purchased at the above sale by the present owner
拍品資料及來源
Emblematic of André Lhote’s unique Cubist technique, Gypsy's Bar depicts a spontaneous vision of musicians and dancers in an atmospheric bar. His unabashed use of vivacious colours and bold play of lines provide a sense of innovation to the formality of the Cubist pictorial construct. A work bursting with energy, Lhote’s artwork stands out for his stylised yet clearly delineated representations of people in motion. Reminiscing, Lhote said: ‘It is fascinating to capture a moving spectacle by freezing it at its crucial phase, at that moment when, like a pendulum at the end of its trajectory, everything seems to become motionless for a second before starting up again in rapid flashes’ (quoted in Anatole Jakovsky, André Lhote, 48 reproductions commentées par le peintre, Paris, 1947, pp. 251-67). The figure in the foreground over whose shoulder we, the spectators, view the scene is evocative of André Lhote's painting Hommage à Watteau, painted in 1918 a study for which is in the permanent collection of TATE Britain.
This work will be included in the forthcoming catalogue raisonné being prepared by Dominique Bermann Martin.
This work will be included in the forthcoming catalogue raisonné being prepared by Dominique Bermann Martin.