#french postimpressionism

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Gustave Loiseau Landscape of Seine et Oise 1906

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Paul Gauguin. The Isolated House (La Maison isolée), 1889

oil on canvas

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Paul Gauguin (French, 1848 -1903) Le cheval blanc / The White Horse, 1898 oil on canvas, 140.5 x 92.0 cm

Musée d'Orsay, Paris

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Henri Le Sidaner  (French, 1862 -1939) Fenêtre sur le port, Honfleur,  1922 oil on canvas,  92.8 by 112 cm

source: Pointillism

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Paul Serusier  (French, 1864 -1927) Women at the Well / Les Danaïdes or Femmes à la source,  1897 oil on canvas, 130.8 by 57.4 cm

Musee d’Orsay

https://www.thenational.ae/art/louvre-abu-dhabi-s-new-exhibition

... in ancient Greek lore the Danaides are the fifty daughters of King Danaus, ruler of Egypt and Libya. Married off to the fifty sons of a fellow potentate, forty-nine of the women carry out their father’s brutal instructions to murder their husbands on their wedding night, in order to negate the threat posed by the rival despot. As punishment for this barbaric crime, the Danaides were condemned by the gods to be trapped in an eternal purgatory in which they were compelled to fill water vessels to the brim on a perpetual basis. In Sérusier’s realisation of this myth, the women seem to convey a sense of gentle acceptance at their fate, going about their task bathed in an otherworldly golden glow.

As one of the founding members of Les Nabis, Sérusier sought to express spiritual and abstract ideals within his art through a new style of decorative painting which championed elegance of line and form alongside strong washes of colour.

In its atmosphere of religious mysticism as well as in its dramatically flattened tonal planes, Les Danaïdes or Femmes à la source echoes the work of Paul Gauguin, which exerted a profound influence on Sérusier throughout his career. The commonality of interests between the two artists was further reinforced by their decision to spend the summer of 1889 painting together, firstly at Pont-Aven, then later in Le Pouldu.

Les Danaïdes or Femmes à la source features a fascinating provenance, having originally formed part of the series of panels which lined the walls of Georges Lacombe’s home, Chateau de l'Ermitage, in Saint Nicolas des bois, Alençon.

http://www.sothebys.com/en/auctions/ecatalogue/2016/impressionist-modern-art-day-sale-l16007/lot.123.html

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Maurice Denis (French, 1870-1943) The Muses / Les Muses, 1893 oil on canvas

© RMN-Grand Palais (Musée d'Orsay)

https://artartspot.blogspot.com/denis

In the guise of women dressed in contemporary clothing, Maurice Denis updates a subject taken from classical mythology – the muses who inspire the arts and sciences. But he transforms the theme profoundly, stripping the muses of the traditional attributes which allow them to be identified.

In the group of three women sitting in the foreground we can see the figure of Marthe, whom the painter married in June 1893 and who inspired his art until her death. In a device common in Denis' work, she is shown twice: in profile in red and from the back, sitting on the chair. Maurice Denis has set the scene on the terrace of Saint-Germain-en-Laye, the town where he lived all his life. The century-old chestnut trees give the composition rhythm and decorative power. The regular strokes of the tree trunks are a pretext for a play of vertical lines which contrast with the curves and ornamental arabesques of the branches, the leaves strewn on the ground, and the patterns and folds of the dresses. The graphic play of lines and interlacing is intensified by the unreal, autumnal colours, painted in areas of flat colour and neatly outlined. The flattened space is that of a "sacred wood", the setting for a revelation and the figures' mysterious communication with nature and supernatural powers. An enigmatic tenth muse in the background (while traditionally there are only nine), with one arm raised to the light of the sky, convinces us of that.

https://www.musee-orsay.fr/en/collections/works-in-focus/painting/commentaire_id/the-muses

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ALBERT MARQUET (French 1875-1947) Le quai des Grands-Augustins sous la pluie oil on canvas, c. 1906 33.3 x 41.3 cm. 

https://www.christies.com/lotfinder/paintings/albert-marquet  © CHRISTIE’S

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Paul Gauguin.  Rue de Tahiti / Street in Tahiti, 1891

Oil on canvas