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Simon Simon-AugusteBedroom Interior - French Mid 20th Century Post Impressionist Oil Paintingc.1940
c.1940
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Beautiful 1940's French post impressionist oil on board by Simon Simon-Auguste.
The work depicts a simple bedroom interior with shoes, candle and a single picture on the wall. Signed lower left and presented in a swept impressionist style frame.
Provenance: Chilham Castle, Kent
Artist: Simon Simon-Auguste (French, 1909-1987)
Title: Bedroom Interior
Medium: Oil on board
Size: 25.5 x 30.5 inches (65 x 77 cm) including frame
Simon Joseph Simon-Auguste (20 April 1909 – May 1987) was a French artist, known for his intimate paintings, mainly portraits, nudes and still lifes. His production is characterized by a calm, intimate feel, and the effective use of glaze.
Born in Marseille, Simon-Auguste was the son of Antonin Auguste, a cabinetmaker specialized in restoring furniture in the chateaux of the Provence.
Simon studied at the École communale of his neighborhood at rue Eydoux, in Marseille, where he excelled in design.
In 1931 Simon-Auguste finished his studies at the École des Beaux-Arts and won the Stanislas-Torrents award. He was commissioned to execute the mural decorations of the town hall in Allauch. He began exhibiting in Marseille where doctors and lawyers purchased his paintings.
In 1932 he invested into a 6-month stay in Paris where he frequented the Louvre Museum and became specially interested in the Camondo Collection. At the invitation of art dealer Adolphe Basler, he took part in the Moins de trente ans exhibition, at the Galerie de Sèvres, along with Jacques Despierre, André Hambourg, Louis Dideron, Léon Couturier, among others. He presented a nude, a still life, and a view of the Jardin du Luxembourg. He also started dealing with Georges Petit and the Galerie Vildrac.
In 1933 Simon-Auguste had his first solo exhibition at the Galerie Detailles, at the Canebière in Marseille which contributed to his success. He displayed 40 pieces (paintings, watercolours and sketches), mostly nudes and genre scenes.
In 1934 he married a philosophy student who would become a journalist under the pseudonym of Michele Seurière. For his second solo exhibition at the Galerie Detailles a few landscapes and marines were added to his portfolio.
During the 1930s Simon-Auguste explored subjects around nudes and landscapes. Later these evolved into children, still lifes and locals, full of intimacy and simplicity, which gained him a lot of recognition. Among these, we find La fillette au bol and Tête d'Enfant, which were purchased by the Musée Longchamp, Marseille.
It was 1939 when he could afford to move to Paris. The family settled at 38 rue de Malte and Simon-Auguste started submitting his work to the Salon d'Automne, Salon des Peintres Témoins de Leur Temps, and other major exhibitions.
At the outbreak of World War II, he was on holiday in Auvergne. In 1940, he was mobilized. Within two months he had to retreat to Ussel, forced by his ill health. In 1941 he reconverted a rented farm there into his atelier.
Simon-Auguste returned to Paris after the Liberation in 1944, to take part for the first time in the Nationale with La Fillette aux Pommes.
Up to 1947 Simon-Auguste signed his paintings with fountain pen ink. Afterwards, he used brush oil.
He spent some Summer holidays in Villiers-sur-Morin in the late 1940s. In 1949 he traveled around Italy: Rome, Florence, Siena, San-Giminiano, Venice, Milan.
In 1950 he was appointed member at the Salon d’Automne. This year he submitted Le Café du Commerce to the Grand Prix de la Peinture Contemporaine, at the Marsan Pavilion (Louvre Museum). He was amongst the 100 painters selected by the jury.
Also in 1950 the city of Paris acquired his Marine de La Rochelle. The Musée du Château de Sceaux acquired Paysage de l'Ille-de-France. The French state acquired La Fillette à la lampe in 1952, Nature morte aux Bleuets in 1953, and Comme un Poisson dans l’Eau in 1955.
In 1951 he contributed to an itinerant exhibition around Switzerland (Bern, Lausanne and Geneva) about Les fleurs et les fruits.
He produced a portrait of French writer and critic Paul Léautaud in 1956.
Simon-Auguste died in Roanne in May 1987.
His works can be found in private collections and museums, such as the Musée des Beaux-Arts de Marseille, the Musée Cantini in Marseille, the Musée Carnavalet in Paris, and Musée d'Art Moderne de Paris.
Reviews
Fleurs
Journalist Micheline Sandrel in Lettres et Médecins:
“You teach us to see better what lies around us, Simon-Auguste, for you instruct us in silence and its harmonies, and in that tenderness, which resembles silence.”
Painter and art critic Raymond Charmet in Arts Magazine:
“Simon-Auguste’s work strikes us by the unity and stylistic mastery which this intelligent and strong-willed painter has succeeded in achieving. The major problems of art are approached and resolved with remarkable determination: that of composition, clear and rigorous; that of line, clean and pure, as in the work of the Primitives; that of color, at once striking in its vibrant blues and subtlety refined, harmonized.”
French art critic, journalist, and art historian Raymond Cogniat in Le Figaro:
“...The moving sensitivity of this artist. In blue surroundings, female subjects depicted in peaceful colors assume attitudes of calm and repose; an art of silence and meditation whose delicacy is very winning.”
Quotes
“I love silence and the sweetness of the daily routine, the simple language of familiar objects, the profound individual glory, the quiet enthusiasm of meditation.”
“I want to escape the modern myth of cosmos, the geometry of the arbitrary and the factual, to translate the balance, density, purity and tenderness of the human figure, its delicate shapes, and to draw this inner world deeper than interstellar spaces.”
Paintings
1951 Paysage près de Villiers-sur-Morin, oil on canvas 81 cm × 100 cm (32 in × 39 in), Musée du Domaine départemental de Sceaux.
1956 Portrait of Paul Léautaud (1872–1956), writer, at his house in de Fontenay-aux-Roses, oil on canvas 89 cm × 116.5 cm (35.0 in × 45.9 in), Musée Carnavalet.
Nature morte aux poires
L'écoliere
Fleurs variées
Fillette à l'ardoise
La partie de carte
Le modèle
Fille au bouquet
Nu
Fleurs des champs
Le rendez-vous
Exhibition at the Galerie Saint-Placide, Paris (1955)
Exhibitions
1933 Galerie Detailles, Marseille.
1935 Galerie du Radeau, quai de Rive-Neuve, Marseille (with Moïse Kisling, Jacques Thevenet and Auguste Chabaud).
1936 he presented drawings and gouaches at the Galerie du Cours-Mirabeau, in Aix-en-Provence.
1938 Galerie Ymo, Marseille, where he presented 25 paintings and 5 drawings (nudes, flowers, and landscapes).
1941 & 1943 Galerie Camus, Avenue Blatin, in Clearmont-Ferrand.
1945 Galerie Lhote, La Rochelle (30 pieces).
1945 Nationale, Paris, with “Femme se coiffant”.
1946 Salon des Artistes Indépendants with “Tête d’Enfant” and “Nu sur un Canapé”.
1947 Salon d’Automne, Paris.
1948 Salon des Tuileries, Paris.
1948 Galerie Bénézit, Boulevard Haussmann, Paris, his first solo exhibition in Paris.
1948 Galerie Lhote, in La Rochelle.
1948 Galerie Le Verseau, together with “Le Cirque” group, with a portrait of two clowns about to speak and a landscape of Villiers-sur-Morin.
1949 Salon des Artistes Indépendants
1949 Galerie Saint Placide
1949 Salon d’Automne
1949 Salon des Tuileries, with “La Femme au Gilet rouge”.
1949 Galerie Doucet, with “Quatre Points Cardinaux”.
1949 Galerie Le Verseau, with “La Vie en rose”.
1950 Société des Artistes Indépendants
1950 Salon d’Automne.
1950 Galerie Allard, with the “Groupe des Dix”, with “Tête d’Enfant” and “Femme mettant ses Bas”.
1951 Galerie des Saussaies, with 20 paintings.
1951 Salon d’Automne, with “Au Café”.
1951 Salon des Artistes Indépendants, with “Le Bal à l’Auberge”.
1952 Galerie Allard, with his very personal children, nudes and flowers
1952 Salon des Peintres Témoins de leur Temps, with “Deux Fillettes jouant au Jeu de Dames”.
1952 Salon d’Automne, with “La Cour de Ferme”.
1953 Salon des Artistes Indépendants, with “L’Enfant aux Fruits”.
1953 Salon du dessin et de la peinture à l'eau.
1953 Galerie Monique de Groote about “Les Filles”.
1953 Galerie Jacquet, in Bourges.
1953 Galerie Mirador, with 20 paintings.
1954 Salon d’Automne, with “La Fillette au Damier”.
1955 Salon des Peintres Témoins de leur Temps about “Le Bonheur”.
1955 Galerie Jacquet, in Bourges, with 20 paintings.
1955 Salon des artistes honfleurais.
1955 Galerie Breteau, about “Le Taureau” (the bull).[d]
1955 & 1957 Galerie Saint-Placide, with 20 recent paintings.[e]
1959 Grand Hotel du Cap Ferrat, in Saint-Jean-Cap-Ferrat.
1959 Galerie 65, in Cannes.
1959 & 1960 Galerie Recio, with Jean Cocteau and others. [f]
1960 Galerie de Presbourg.
1964 Biennale de peinture of Menton, with "Nature morte au fleurs bleu".
- Creator:Simon Simon-Auguste (1909 - 1987, French)
- Creation Year:c.1940
- Dimensions:Height: 25.6 in (65 cm)Width: 30.32 in (77 cm)
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- Gallery Location:Sevenoaks, GB
- Reference Number:1stDibs: LU1955216236162
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