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412 - Marie Vassilieff (Franco-Russian, 1884-1957) Port of Spain, …
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Estimate €50,000 - €80,000
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Marie Vassilieff (Franco-Russian, 1884-1957) Port of Spain, 1915 Canvas. Signed. Titled, signed and numbered 5 on the back. Height: 45.5 cm Width: 60 cm. Frame: 50 x 64.5 cm. Provenance : - Suzanne Michel collection, rue Norvins, Paris; - sale in Enghien-les-Bains, Me Goxe-Belaisch, 1 February 2009, no. 43; - sale in Paris, Me Pestel Debord, 30 November 2012, n°142 ; - Claude Bernès collection (1941-2025), Paris. This work is registered in the Claude Bernès archives under no. 95. Digitisation in very high definition and unique digital passport secured in the blockchain by Nüme accessible on the rouillac.com website. Bibliography: Claude Bernès and Benoît Noël, "Marie Vassilieff", published by BVR, Livarot, work reproduced on p. 100. Exhibition: 2015-2016, "0, 10: Malevich, Tatlin & The Birth of New Systems in Art", Musée Beyeler, Basel. In the summer of 1913, Marie Vassilieff took her students to work in Spain: Fontarabia, Pasajes, San Sebastian. She brought back notebooks and paintings. Where the Spanish Landscape scans the land, this Port of Spain opens out onto the sea. In the foreground, the water; in the background, the village and the port; in the centre, a red and black tugboat whose mass contrasts with the light-coloured flat tints of the sky and the façades. The composition is both Cubist, with its fragmentation of planes and simultaneous view, and Futurist, in the mechanical energy released by the boat. It was precisely this type of painting that Vassilieff exhibited in Russia at the end of 1915: very similar subjects rubbed shoulders with the Suprematist works of Tatline, Exter and Rodchenko. Exhibited at the Fondation Beyeler in Riehen-Basel in 2015, the painting shows Vassilieff at the height of her powers, capable of synthesising in a single canvas the two great plastic revolutions of her time.
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About the sale MARIE VASSILIEFF - THE GOLDEN AGE OF MONTPARNASSE
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