Jacques Martin-Ferrières
La Seine au Pont de Grenelle
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October 4, 04:01 PM GTNN
Estimate
15,000 - 20,000 USD
Lot Details
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Jacques Martin Ferrières
1893 - 1972
La Seine au Pont de Grenelle
signed Martin-F (lower left); titled 54/P La Seine au Pont de Grenelle (on the upper stretcher bar); inscribed Pour monsieur Oscar Ghez le grand collects ionneur de Genève, sympathique Martin. Ferrières Nov. 1954 (on the lower stretcher bar)
oil on canvas
19 ¾ by 28 ¾ in.
50.3 by 73.3 cm.
This work will be included in the forthcoming catalogue raisonné currently being prepared by Marie-Anne Destrebecq-Martin.
Oscar Ghez, Geneva (gift of the artist)
Crane Kalman Gallery, London
Private collects ion, Paris
Robert Scp., Paris, 10 June 2005, lot 73
Sotheby's, New York, 3 November 2005, lot 221
Acquired from the above by the present owner
Using thickly-applied oils, the artist renders a sun drenched scene with a pointillist technique. Martin-Ferrières communicates the golden-hour tableau with tightly-knit dots of paint in the upper register, and elongates his strokes horizontally in the lower half to cleverly communicate reflection. The artist, who is the son of Henri Martin, was practicing after the post-Impressionists with an eye for detail that he used to render picturesque landscapes and still lifes.
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