Still Life with Bottle, Pipe and Pot of Tobacco (Primary Title)
Roger de La Fresnaye, French, 1885 - 1925 (Artist)
La Fresnaye received a conventional artistic education at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris, but by 1910 he began working in a style influenced by Cubism. This still-life painting evinces the Cubist fascination with simplicity of geometric form, however, unlike the Cubist work of the same period by Picasso or Braque, La Fresnaye maintains a realistic perspective. The artist creates a sense of depth to the composition that is occupied by the table and the objects gathered on top. La Fresnaye’s use of bright, high-pitched colors also sets him apart from the Cubists, who tended toward dark compositions with a small range of tones.
Not signed.
Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon
2019-2020: "Van Gogh Monet Degas, The Mellon Collection of French Art from the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts", Palazzo Zabarella, Padua, Italy, October 26, 2019 - March 1, 2020
2019-2021: Van Gogh, Monet, Degas, and Their Times: The Mellon Collection of French Art from the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Frist Art Museum, Nashville, TN, February 2 - May 5, 2019; Mississippi Museum of Art, Jackson, MS, April 4, 2020 - January 10, 2021
2018-2019: "Van Gogh, Monet, Degas: The Mellon Collection of French Art from the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts", The Frick Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, March 17 - July 15, 2018; Oklahoma Museum of Art, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, June 22 - September 22, 2019
“Art in Progress,” Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1944
Mount Holyoke College, 1933
“Summer Exhibitions,” Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1932
2019-2021: Van Gogh, Monet, Degas, and Their Times: The Mellon Collection of French Art from the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Frist Art Museum, Nashville, TN, February 2 - May 5, 2019; Mississippi Museum of Art, Jackson, MS, April 4, 2020 - January 10, 2021
2018-2019: "Van Gogh, Monet, Degas: The Mellon Collection of French Art from the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts", The Frick Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, March 17 - July 15, 2018; Oklahoma Museum of Art, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, June 22 - September 22, 2019
“Art in Progress,” Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1944
Mount Holyoke College, 1933
“Summer Exhibitions,” Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1932
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