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La Barthe de Neste, agglomération de Lannemezan (Haute-Pyrénées).

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MWW Artwork of the Day (9/13/22) André Lhote (French, 1885-1962) L'Escale (1935) Oil on canvas, 130.5 x 97.2 cm. Private Collection

This stylish work by André Lhote acts as a fascinating insight into the development of his Cubist technique. The central woman morphs into the two figures on her left and right, almost echoing the delicate unfolding of the fan in her left hand. This triptych of forms is further mirrored in the three colours of the French flag and the three arches of the bridge. Lhote is playing on form and colour within the different planar fields of the painting, further echoing Gino Severini’s praised Futurist dancers. Separate from Lhote’s Cubist and Futurist progression, the influence of Art Deco is very clear; a style which dominated the 1920s and 30s, and amongst much else, gave rise to the Precionism of Tamara de Lempicka’s women, whose presence reverberates around this work.

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