André LHOTE 1885-1962
Jeux au printemps, 1910
Oil on paper mounted on canvas
100,3 x 150,7 cm – 39.49 x 59.33 in.
With frame:
125 x 174 cm – 49.21 x 68.50 in.
With frame:
125 x 174 cm – 49.21 x 68.50 in.
Signed and dated lower right
Young painter, aware of the mastery of his art, André Lhote threw himself into this large painting that he created especially for the Salon des Indépendants in 1910, and composed...
Young painter, aware of the mastery of his art, André Lhote threw himself into this large painting that
he created especially for the Salon des Indépendants in 1910, and composed it with intensity and in a true melting pot of influences:
- first of all, that of Cézanne for his geometric construction of space, the rhythm of colors, the alternation of contrasts… which he admired in the Grandes Baigneuses;
- then, comes Gauguin's vivid palette and foliage which he discovered at the home of his patron the collector Gabriel Frizeau who owned the monumental painting “D’où venons-nous? Qui sommes-nous? Où allons-nous?”;
- finally, the sculptural forms of the young women recall the Baigneuses which Derain also presented at the Salon of 1907.
