Combat in Chateau-Renault Forest (Primary Title)
Andre Bauchant, French, 1873-1958 (Artist)
When Bauchant first exhibited his art, at age forty-eight, he had been painting for only three years. But after showing nine works at the 1921 Salon d’Automne in Paris, he was quickly accepted by the modern Parisian art world. Combat in Château-Renault Forest is characteristic of Bauchant’s themes and style. The image of riders in oldfashioned costumes framed by colossal trees in a mossy landscape reflects his interests in history and the natural world. Bauchant often consulted plates from his personal collection of history books for compositions. This battle, however, appears to be a fantastical imagining of a courtly drama situated in the forest around Bauchant’s hometown of Château-Renault.
Signed and dated lower left, A Bauchant 1939
T. Catesby Jones Collection
Matisse, Picasso, and Modern Art in Paris: The T. Catesby Jones Collections at VMFA and the University of Virginia Art Museum, VMFA Statewide Exhibition, UVA, Charlottesville, January 30 - April 24, 2009; Museum of the Shenandoah Valley, Winchester, August 15 - November 29, 2009; William King Regional Art Center, Abingdon, December 11, 2009 - February 21, 2010
Selections from the T. Catesby Jones Collection, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, November 15 - December 29, 1974
Modern French Painting, Norfolk Museum, March 1 - March 26, 1958; Mary Baldwin College, April 9 - April 19, 1958
Lynchburg Art Center, March 26 - April 16, 1954
Selections from the T. Catesby Jones Collection, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, November 15 - December 29, 1974
Modern French Painting, Norfolk Museum, March 1 - March 26, 1958; Mary Baldwin College, April 9 - April 19, 1958
Lynchburg Art Center, March 26 - April 16, 1954
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