(Bordeaux, 1885 – Paris, 1962)
Paysage pointilliste, circa 1917
Gouache and graphite on paper
Signed lower left
A. LHOTE.
19.1 x 28.2 cm
Provenance :
- Collection Marguerite Lhote (born Hayet), first wife of the artist, Paris
- Private collection, France
Literature :
To be included in Catalogue raisonné de l’œuvre peint d’André Lhote in preparation by Mrs. Dominique Bermann-Martin
Certificate of authenticity from Mrs Dominique Bermann-Martin dated 15 November 2023
The Neo-Impressionist painter Léo Gausson (1860 - Lagny-sur-Marne - 1944) developed his Pointillist period from 1885 until 1890-91, before moving on to a synthetic period from 1897.
This painting by Léo Gausson was given by the artist in 1909 to Marguerite Hayet, then still a young lady, to whom he dedicated it:
"A Mlle Marguerite Hayet
Léo Gausson 1909".
That same year, 1909, Marguerite Hayet married the painter André Lhote.
Léo GAUSSON
LANDSCAPE FOR MADEMOISELLE MARGUERITE HAYET, 1909
Oil on canvas
35 x 27 cm
Private collection
André Lhote only experimented with Pointillism in a handful of watercolors and gouaches on paper.
In this work, Paysage pointilliste, produced circa 1917, Lhote achieves the contradictory synthesis of Neo-Impressionism and Cubism.
Neo-impressionism, because the brushstroke is purely stippled, and colors are rendered by simultaneous contrast in accordance with Chevreul's laws, and Cubism, because of the absence of illusionist perspective and the synthetic geometrization of forms.
Also in 1917, Picasso tried his hand at Pointillism in a few works, including this watercolor of a female figure sitting in an armchair.
Pablo PICASSO
ITALIAN GIRL, Rome 1917
Watercolor on paper
75.5 x 52 cm
Open-Air Museum, Hakone, Japan