拍品 190
  • 190

EDGARD MAXENCE | Young woman with swans or The Swans

估價
40,000 - 60,000 EUR
招標截止

描述

  • Edgard Maxence
  • Young woman with swans or The Swans
  • Signed upper right E. Maxence.
  • Watercolor and pastel on paper 
  • 45,1 x 56 cm ; 17 3/4 by 22 1/2 in.

展覽

Probably, Salon des Artistes français, Paris 1912, n°2707, titled Les Cygnes

Condition

Good overall condition. Small pin holes at all four corners. Tiny lift on the lower right. Small scratches on the left, near the edge. Small and light scratches scattered on the surface. Heightened with gouache and traces of black pencil, especially visible on the swans. The reds are a little stronger on the catalogue's photograph.
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拍品資料及來源

Edgard Maxence's first master was Elie Delaunay at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts, before he entered the studio of Gustave Moreau, who deeply impressed the young artist. Influenced by the latter, Maxence also kept an eye on how art developed on the other side of the Channel, especially on the Pre-Raphaelites whose deliberately archaic esthetic seduced him. In the following decades, Maxence remained one of the last great French symbolist artists, carrying on with his dreamlike vision until the beginning of the 20th century, looking to the past, myths, and legends of his native Brittany. The Swans is probably the work he exhibited at the Salon des artistes français in 1912. It is described in the catalogue as a watercolour and a pastel, which corresponds to our work. As was Maxence's habit, he depicts the profile of a young woman's face, her timeless beauty and long red braided hair. Leaning on a balustrade, she seems to be feeding swans, in a landscape imbued with mystery.