Seated Figure, Corsica (Translation)
Personnage assis - Corse, vers (Primary Title)
Émilie Charmy, French, 1878 - 1974 (Artist)
Charmy was one of the few recognized female painters within the early 20th-century Parisian avant-garde. Like the Fauves, with whom she was associated, Charmy used bright colors and thick brushwork to express the intensity of her vision. Here, the spare, loose, painterly gestures convey the eyes, nose, and mouth on the face of the seated girl. By 1913 Charmy’s work would hang alongside that of Henri Matisse and Georges Rouault at the Armory Show in New York. While she exhibited her work extensively in galleries in Paris until World War II, scholars and collectors have only recently rediscovered her work.
Lent by Pamela K. and William A. Royall, Jr.
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