André Auclair, Trio With Cellist, Violinist And Harpist (Circa 1930)
Lyon, France
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Height
30.5 cm
Width
20.5 cm
Wear conditions
Good
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Description
ANDRÉ AUCLAIR (Paris 1893 - Saint-Thomé 1976)
Trio with Cellist, Violinist and Harpist
Circa 1930
Gouache on paper
30.5 x 20.5 cm
Unsigned
Inscribed on back: Andre Auclair (1893-1971) / Les 3 musiciens
Framed and under glass
André Auclair was born in Paris in 1893 and studied at the School of Decorative Arts, as well as the School of Fine Arts, in Paris. Like so many great French artists he followed a dual path as a fine artist and as a designer for the decorative arts. Auclair was a painter, a sculptor, a ceramicist, a printmaker, a tapestry designer (his father had been a weaver at the Gobelins) and a stained-glass window designer. In the 1920s and 1930s he was a member of the Société des Artistes indépendants, and he regularly exhibited his paintings and drawings at the Salon des indépendants and the Salon des Tuileries. He also taught painting at the École de Montparnasse. This is the period of his most important easel paintings. This infinitely subtle composition of a trio of classical musicians; a cellist, a violinist, and a harpist, executed in outline drawing in black, and blocks of organic colour in gouache, is a serious work of cubism from the heart of the cubist period. It should not be confused with works of late or retrograde cubism from the 1940s to the 1960s where many lesser artists jumped on the band wagon. Auclair, like all the other original cubists, did not get stuck in the style and moved on quite quickly. For these musicians Auclair was also clearly inspired by mediaeval manuscript illumination and this merging of cubism and medievalism (for a subject of modern chamber music) is typical of Auclair’s visual and graphic intelligence. This is likely to be the original modello for a larger work executed in oils.
In 1953 Auclair changed tack and established himself in Saint-Thomé, a village in the Rhône valley 170 km south of Lyon in the Ardèche, with a workshop focusing on ceramics and the decorative arts. In this later period, Auclair nonetheless produced many wonderful drawings and paintings of the Rhône valley landscape. As as an artist he never stopped developing and exploring - his stained-glass window designs of the 1960s are some of the most powerful modernist creations of the period. In 1987 a museum dedicated to Auclair, le Centre d’Art et d’Histoire André Auclair, opened in Cruas a town on the banks of the Rhône a little to the north of Saint-Thomé where Auclair had lived and worked from 1953 to 1976.
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