Jean-Francis AUBURTIN (1866-1930) Reclining... - Lot 136 - Crait + Müller

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Jean-Francis AUBURTIN (1866-1930) Reclining... - Lot 136 - Crait + Müller
Jean-Francis AUBURTIN (1866-1930) Reclining Nude by the Sea in Varengeville Oil on canvas. Monogrammed lower left. 65 x 92 cm Jean-Francis Auburtin (1866-1930) is marked by both impressionist painting and symbolist spirit. His work is also inspired by the themes and compositions of Japanese prints Japanese prints, of which he is a fervent collector. This painter is part of the long tradition of the painters on the ground like Monet, Courbet and Boudin. He surveys the paths of the customs officers and the Breton coasts in the search of the nuances of light and the meteorological variations. The painter also devoted himself for a decade (from 1902 to 1912) to dance. He takes as a model Loïe Fuller or another dancer with bare feet, Isadora Duncan and her pupils of the school of Meudon. One can think that the title of our work Isadorable makes reference to this artistic reference to this artistic cooperation and that the second work Dance on the bottom of the evening refers to this time. The young girls danced in the clearings under the direction of Isadora's brother and came to rest in Normandy, not far from Varengeville, where the artist where the artist had taken up residence in 1908. Jean-Francis Auburtin is also a great decorator and will receive many orders of the State, including a 1916 project for the Council of State in Paris. The artist realized four large panels for the Salon des colonnes on the theme of landscape and pastoral inspired by Antiquity, among which a dance scene of which our work would be a preparatory preparatory cardboard. If this work is placed in a symbolist spirit, in the manner of a Pierre Puvis de Chavannes, it also reflects the unceasing work of an artist impassioned by the fresco artists of the Italian Renaissance.
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