Towards Modernity
Connaught Brown is delighted to present Towards Modernity, an exhibition surveying the transformational progression of Modern art from its inception under Impressionism and through its subsequent groundbreaking iterations.
The end of the nineteenth and beginning of the twentieth centuries gave rise to some of the most influential artistic movements in history. Artists such as Cézanne, Pissarro, Renoir, Vlaminck and Dufy broke with tradition to produce new and exhilarating work that inspired each other and the generations to come. They were ‘artistic disrupters’ in a period of great change.
Impressionism rejected the rigidity of academicism; Pointillism experimented with scientific theories; Fauvism celebrated pure colour, and Cubism distorted pictorial planes. Distinctly individual, these movements interlinked with and informed the next, creating a visual conversation and ideological interchange between these artists.
Through Impressionism Degas, Pissarro and Renoir developed a new way of addressing figuration, the Cubists Lipchitz, Marcoussis and Lhote redefined the concept of form while Chagall and Dufy embraced a unique and dream-like pictorial freedom. Together, the works in this show will demonstrate the changes which occurred during an extraordinary period of history, in which change was embraced and the norm challenged with an inquisitive spirit.
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Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Pré et arbres, 1893
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Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Paysage, 1916
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Henri Le Sidaner, Le pont, Amiens, 1911
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Edgar Degas, Chez la modiste (modiste garnissant un chapeau), c.1885
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Edgar DegasDanse espagnole, c.1885Bronze
Conceived circa 1885 and cast between 1919 and 1953 in an edition of 20 numbered A to T plus 2 casts reserved for the Degas heirs marked HER.D and HER by the A. A. Hébrard Foundry, Paris16.26 x 6.9 x 6.5 in, 41.3 x 17.6 x 16.6cmStamped ‘Degas’ (Lugt 658), the foundry mark ‘Cire Perdue A. A. Hébrard’ and numbered ‘20/F’ -
Theophile-Alexandre SteinlenLa Promenade, c. 1900Pastel on paper28 1/2 x 33 1/2 in, 72.4 x 85 cmSigned 'Steinlen' lower right
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Emilie Charmy, Autoportrait avec boucles d'oreille noirs, 1945-50
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Émilie Charmy, Nature morte avec cerises, 1920
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Émilie Charmy, Marnat, 1913-15
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Henri Martin, Venis, La Salute, c.1915
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Camille Pissarro, Pommiers, effet d'automne, c. 1900
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Camille Pissarro, Les Coteaux de Thierceville, temps gris, 1888
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Roderic O'ConorStill life with spring flowers in a vase, c.1911Oil on canvas21 7/16 x 18 5/16 in, 54.5 x 46.5 cmStudio stamp 'atelier O'Conor' verso
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Henri Manguin, Flower Still Life, 1937
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David BombergFigure Composition (Stable Interior Series), 1919Oil on paper laid down on board34 5/8 x 15 3/8 in, 88 x 39 cmSold
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Max Ernst, Claire de lune, 1947
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Marc Chagall, Corbeille au soleil (Gordes), c.1938-9
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Raoul Dufy, L'atelier de l'artiste au Havre, 1929
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Marc Chagall, Le peintre devant 'le soleil rouge' , 1965
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Marc Chagall, Les amoureux aux deux bouquet et le peintre , c.1975
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Raoul Dufy, L'Atelier à Vence, 1945
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Marc Chagall, La lecture du violoncelliste au village, 1974
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Jacques Lipchitz, Personnage Assis (Étude pour la sculpture), April 1918
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Louis MarcoussisDeux dormeurs, 1937Oil on cardboard mounted on a stretcher14 3/4 x 24 1/8 in, 37.6 x 61 cmSigned and dated 'marcoussis 1937' lower rightSold
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Andre LhoteLes Footballeurs, 1916Oil on canvas25 1/4 x 31 1/2 in, 64 x 80 cmSigned and titled verso 'Lhote footballeurs 300'Sold
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Maurice de Vlaminck, Le Guéridon au vase de fleurs, 1914-15
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Alexander Archipenko, Statue on a Triangular Base, 1914