"FLOWER MARKET, PARIS"
Oil on panel, circa 1910
Signed in oil, lower left recto
Panel bearing the stamp "Lucien Lefebvre-Foinet 18 Rue Vavia & 2.Rue Bres-Paris"*
Housed in a 22K giltwood reproduction carved frame (see below)
Museums: Whistler House Museum of Art; Everson Museum Of Art; Pennsylvania
Academy of the Fine Arts;
Philadelphia Sketch Club; Art Club Philadelphia;
Luxembourg Museum, Paris
Books
17: including Light, Air, and Color: American Impressionist
Paintings from Pennsylvania
Academy of
Fine Art, Danly; Art What Thou Eat, Images
of Food in American Art, Gustafson;
The History and Ideals of American Art,
Neuhaus
Image size : 7.5” High x 9.5” Wide
Note:
We are very fortunate to
have sereral works by Philadelphia and New York painter
Elisha Kent Kane Wetherill.
Wetherill studied with Thomas Anshutz at the Pennsylvania
Academy of Fine Art
in the late 1890s and from 1906-09, with J.P.
Laurens at the Académie Julian in Paris, 1902,
and with James Abbot
McNeill Whistler, also in Paris.
He
specialized in views of New York, including figural work as well as
landscapes and seascapes.
He was a member of the National Academy
of Design, Salmagundi Club, Allied Artists of America,
Brooklyn Society
of Etchers, and the Philadelphia Sketch Club.
In 1915, Wetherill
received a gold medal at the Panama-Pacific Exposition in San Francisco.
and in 1926 won a silver medal at the Sesqui-Centennial Exposition in
Philadelphia.
He also exhibited at the Art Institute of Chicago,
and at the National Academy of Design in 1925.
"Flower Market in Paris" has a very
"light" touch to the well thought-out but simply-painted scene.
The carefully constructed composition is still visible in the
underlying pencil lines
that graphed the intercepting angles and
distances.
The result is as pleasing as the finest symphony,
even though having a somewhat casual ease in appearance.
The
subtle warm and cool variations
of single hues give a soft
vibration, reflecting the gentler era gone by.
*Lucien Lefebvre-Foinet was a well-known art supply dealer in Montparnasse.
The firm was responsible for art conservation and supplied canvases and pigment to many of the modern
masters.
It has been said that Monsieur Lefebvre-Foinet was responsible for the spread of modern art as he was
influential enough to accomplish the export of
hundreds of canvases from American galleries to
post-war Europe. He
also had a fine collection of art.
SOLD
#5871
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