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PIERRE AMÉDÉE MARCEL-BÉRONNEAU (1869-1937)
Salomé
Oil on can…
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PIERRE AMÉDÉE MARCEL-BÉRONNEAU (1869-1937)
Salomé
Oil on can…
See original version (French)
Estimate €15,000 - €20,000
Voluntary lot
Description
PIERRE AMÉDÉE MARCEL-BÉRONNEAU (1869-1937)
Salomé
Oil on canvas
Signed lower right
(Re-tooled and old restorations)
146 x 89 cm - 57 ½ x 35 in.
Oil on canvas, signed lower right
Provenance :
Artist's family, France
Sale, 2nd Garden-Party sale in Cheverny, Rouillac, Cheverny, Château de Cheverny, 23 June 1990, lot 241
Sale, Art Nouveau & Art Déco, Poulain-Le Fur, Paris, Hôtel des Ventes du Palais, 20 April 2000, lot 111
Private collection, France (by descent)
Bibliography :
Marcel-Beronneau, 1869-1937, peintre symboliste, cat. expo. Paris, Galerie Alain Blondel, 1981, described and reproduced s. p.
Exhibition(s) :
Marcel-Beronneau, 1869-1937, peintre symboliste, Paris, Galerie Alain Blondel, 1981, n° unknown
Notice:
"Under a bluish veil covering his chest and head, one could make out the arches of his eyes, the chalcedony of his ears and the whiteness of his skin".
Gustave Flaubert, Hérodias
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"It is curious to see how this idea of Salome the dancer has obsessed the minds of a great many men.
There is a painter in Paris who, for 15 years, has sought to express his ideal on this woman dancing to obtain the head of Saint John, and during all this time he has painted little else.
P. Marcel-Beronneau did a Salome for the first time in 1896. It was exhibited at the Salon and attracted attention. It was a strange, mystical work, full of that fantastic imagination that the painter showed in many other productions.
But it was only one of a long series, and P. Marcel-Beronneau wants to continue his studies of Salome until he has reached what he considers to be the criterion of his ideal. Then he will turn his attention to other subjects.
Different ideas about Salomé :
The many Salomés painted by this artist, a persevering researcher, all have different characters corresponding to the painter's different ideas about this woman.
Some are mystical, others simply queens of beauty who, it seems, have no other purpose than to demonstrate the power of carnal beauty. Some are cruel, or sensual with a kind of infernal beauty.
Some are pagan or passionate, others cold and calm.
All share a similarity of beauty, due above all to the painter's remarkable choice of female types, and to his fantastic colouring, in arabesques of flowers, fruit, precious stones, draperies and wild Oriental ornamentation".
Somerville de Story, Daily Mail, 1912, quoted in cat. expo. Marcel Beronneau, 1869-1937, peintre symboliste, Paris, Galerie Alain Blondel, 1981, n. p.
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