Apr 11
Return from the Market (Retour du Marché)
Artist: André Fougeron (French, 1913–1998)
Date: 1953
Medium: Oil on canvas
Collection: Tate Britain, London, United Kingdom
Description
Fougeron was the leading artist associated with the French Communist Party in the early 1950s. This is a portrait of his wife. By surrounding her with the details of their own modest domestic interior - the loaf and vegetables, the standard tiling and utilitarian sink - he indicates a simple life of material struggle.
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