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Marcel Gromaire Listed Artist Original Oil NYC ca.1950
Description: Oil on canvas, unframed. Signed lower left: "Gromaire".The exact provenance and exhibition history of the painting are unknown. The subject, however, dates it to 1950 or 1951. In 1950, the artist visited the United States for the first time. New York inspired a series of 20 oil paintings and watercolors that were exhibited the following year at the Galerie Louis Carré in Paris. His depictions of the frenetic postwar American city were a thematic departure for Gromaire, who tended to favor industrial and working class themes. Stylistically, though, the works are in keeping with his Cubist-Expressionist technique. The catalogue raisonné of Gromaires work has accounted for 11 of the 20 works that were included in the 1951 exhibition. Of that number, seven are in private collections, two are in museums in France, and one (New York, Times Square la Nuit) sold at auction in 2008 for 16,250. The location of the eleventh is unknown. This is the opportunity to acquire what could possibly be one of the nine unaccounted for works or prep works from that historic exhibition. Cit.: François Gromaire and Françoise Chibret-Plaussu. Marcel Gromaire: la Vie et luvre: Catalogue Raisonné des Peintures, 1993. Price Comparison: Recent auction records from the artist:
Sale of Christie's New York: Thursday, May 11, 1989 [Lot 392] Marcel Gromaire; Title New York - l'église noire; Medium Oil on Canvas; Year of Work 1951-1951; Size Height 21.5 in.; Width 18.2 in.; Signed. Estimate 20,000 - 30,000 US$; Sold For 44,000 US$. -and- Sale of Sotheby's Paris: Thursday, July 03, 2008 [Lot 312] Marcel Gromaire; Title New York, Times Square la nuit; Description Peint en 1951.signé Gromaire et daté 1951(en bas à gauche) huile sur; Medium oil on canvas; Year of Work 1951; Size Height 21.7 in.; Width 18.1 in.; Signed; Estimate 12,000 - 15,000 Euro (18,671 - 23,339 US$)Sold For 16,250 Euro (25,663 US$). Dimensions: Canvas: 11 1/4 x 14 1/2in. Weight: 1lb. Condition: Surface of the work is slightly dirty and may benefit from a cleaning. Craquelure to surface paint throughout, resulting in a few small areas of loss to surface paint, particularly at upper quadrant center of canvas in sky. The largest area of paint loss measuring 1 1/4in. high and less than 1/2in. wide located 1 1/4in. from upper edge and 7in from left side, in sky. A few small nicks/losses to paint in lower right quadrant and lower edge center. May need minor restoration. Otherwise, very good condition overall with no evidence of inpainting when examined under u.v. light. Artist's Biography:
Marcel Gromaire (French, 1892-1971). Marcel Gromaire was born in Noyelles-sur-Sambre in 1892. Gromaire began his education in Douai, in northern France, and later went to Paris, where he began studying law. In Paris, he first became acquainted with the artists of Montparnasse. In his autodidactic artistic development, Marcel Gromaire was influenced by such painters as Matisse, Cézanne, and later by Fernand Léger. In 1912, Gromaire was drafted into military service and served as a soldier in the First World War until he was wounded in 1916. During his time in the war, he gathered the basic impressions which would determine his later artistic career. He returned to Paris in 1919 and worked as a film critic at first. In 1920, Marcel Gromaire met his future patron, Dr. Girardin, who for decades regularly bought the oil paintings and watercolors Gromaire produced. Gromaire's work was finally recognized in his exhibition of 1933 in the De Bâle art gallery. In 1937, Gromaire carried out the decoration of the pavilion of the porcelain manufacturer Séveres at the World Exhibition in Paris. From 1933 to 1944, Gromaire was part of the renewal of the tapestry movement and therefore belongs to the definitive pioneers of a new Gobelin tradition. Gromaire went to the United States in 1950 and received the renowned Carnegie Prize in 1952. After much sickness, Marcel Gromaire died in Paris in 1971. [Source: ]
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