Amédée de la Patellière
Amedee de La PATELLIERE, Eclipse with 4 Characters, 1928
1928

About the Item

Oil on canvas by Amedee de La PATELLIERE, France, 1928. Eclipse with four characters. With frame: 63x54 cm - 24.8x21.25 inches ; without frame: 41x33 cm - 16.15x13 inches. Format 6F. Signed lower right "A. de la Patellière". In its period Montparnasse frame in carved wood. Comes with its certificate of authenticity by Mr. Yves de la Patellière from June 15, 1986. Yves de la Patellière, now deceased, was one of the sons of Amédée's older brother. He was therefore the nephew and manager of the work of Amédée at the time of this certificate. Biography Amédée de La Patellière was born in the vineyards of Nantes, at the Château de Bois-Benoît in Vallet. He spent his childhood in the countryside, which was to be one of the sources of inspiration for his work. After preparing for the Naval School, he entered the Académie Julian in Paris in 1910. He then divided his time between his family home in Bois-Benoît, Paris, and the south of Seine-et-Oise. He was wounded in action during the First World War. On his return from the war in 1919, he spent some time in Tunisia from where he brought back luminous sketches. Settled in Paris, he married Suzanne Lamon in 1924. He was a professor at the Académie Ranson in Paris from 1929 to 1932 and was one of the founding artists of the Young Painting group (with Yves Alix, Robert Lotiron and Louis-Joseph Soulas). contemporary. He was also the friend of Bertrand Mogniat-Duclos. Like his friends André Dunoyer de Segonzac and Henri Le Fauconnier, he announces a form of expressionism, where the dense and dark material, organized in chiaroscuro, gives a solid volume to the rustic subjects he likes. We perceive a distant influence of cubism in his structured compositions, but with an expression of intense gravity (The Rest in the Cellar, National Museum of Modern Art, Paris). His earthy roughness, however, excludes the picturesque, because the artist seems more preoccupied with plasticity than realism. During stays in Provence, in the last years of his life (1930-1931), his palette diversified. He met the writer Jean Giono, for whom he produced the illustrations for his novel Colline, and whose lyricism was very close to his own. Seriously ill in 1929, he died in Paris in 1932. Exhibitions 1945: retrospective at the National Museum of Modern Art in Paris 1973: exhibition at the Galliera museum in Paris 2014: exhibition co-produced by the Nantes Museum of Fine Arts, La Piscine de Roubaix, the Mont-de-Piété Museum in Bergues and the MUDO - Musée de l'Oise de Beauvais Library Roger Brielle, Amédée de La Patellière, collection « Les Peintres nouveaux » n° 46, Paris, Gallimard, 1932 Jean Alazard, Amédée de la Patelliere, Pierre Cailler, Genève, 1953 Michel Charzat, La Patellière, peintre du réel et du merveilleux, in "La Jeune peinture française", Hazan, Paris, 2010 pp. 87-92 Patrick Descamps, Amédée de la Patelliere (1890-1932), les éclats de l'ombre, Catalogue d'exposition, Musée des Beaux-Arts de Nantes, Gourcuff Gradenigo, Paris , 2014 Museums Paris, Musée National d'Art Moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou Château de Saint-Ouen New York Moscou Tokyo

Creator:

Amédée de la Patellière (1890 - 1932, French)

Creation Year:

1928

Dimensions:

Height: 24.81 in (63 cm)Width: 21.26 in (54 cm)Depth: 3.15 in (8 cm)

Medium:

Canvas,Oil

Movement & Style:

Expressionist

Period:

1920-1929