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Mid Century pointillist painting on canvas of the Spirit of Ecstasy. Artist unknown.
Colourful and full of energy, the large application of dots in this pointillist work both mesmerize and invite the viewer to gaze and lose themself as the image of a lithe winged figure appears across the painting.
The Spirit of Ecstasy, also called Eleanor, Silver Lady, or Flying Lady, was designed by Sykes, a graduate of London's Royal College of Art, and carries with it a story about secret passion between Montagu, second Baron Montagu of Beaulieu after 1905, a pioneer of the automobile movement, and editor of The Car Illustrated magazine from 1902, and the model for the emblem, Eleanor Velasco Thornton.
Pointillism was a revolutionary painting technique pioneered by Georges Seurat and Paul Signac in Paris in the mid-1880s. It was a reaction against the prevailing movement of Impressionism, which was based on the subjective responses of individual artists. Pointillism, by contrast, demanded a much more scientific approach.
Along with Seurat and Signac, leading members of the group included their fellow Frenchmen, Henri-Edmond Cross and Maximilien Luce. Other well-known artists who briefly made works in Pointillist style were van Gogh and, early in their careers, Picasso, Mondrian and Kandinsky.
Painting by dots: The movement's name derives from a review of Seurat's work by the French art critic, Félix Fénéon, who used the expression peinture au point (“painting by dots”). Seurat actually preferred the label "Divisionism" – or, for that matter, Chromoluminarism – but it was Pointillism that stuck. As for Fénéon, one of the movement’s great champions, he'd go on to be immortalised in a celebrated canvas, Signac's Portrait of Félix Fénéon, from 1890, now part of the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) collection in New York.
Meticulous technique: Pointillism is regarded as a Neo-Impressionist movement. Which is to say, it grew out of – and beyond – Impressionism. Works such as Un Dimanche Après-Midi À L'île De La Grande Jatte were even exhibited as part of the eighth (and final) Impressionist exhibition, in Paris in May 1886. Like members of that earlier movement, Pointillists wished to render optical phenomena. However, they renounced fluid, spontaneous strokes in favour of a measured, meticulous technique.
- Dimensions:Height: 24.61 in (62.5 cm)Width: 20.08 in (51 cm)Depth: 0.99 in (2.5 cm)
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- Gallery Location:Cotignac, FR
- Reference Number:Seller: GB/Pointillist.1stDibs: LU1430212824262
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