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Albert Dubois-Pillet, Champs en Ile-de-France

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Albert Dubois-Pillet, Champs en Ile-de-France
Oil on canvas. 31.6 x 40.7 cm. Framed. Signed 'dUBois PillEt' in black lower right. - In fine condition with fresh colours. Few minute losses of colour to upper edge and upper right corner.

Provenance
1926 - 1938 Kunstsalon Hermann Abels, Cologne (label verso on canvas); Collection Corboud, long-term loan to Wallraf-Richartz-Museum - Fondation Corboud, Cologne

Exhibitions
Cologne 2001 (Wallraf-Richartz-Museum - Fondation Corboud), Miracle de la couleur. Die Fondation Corboud, aside from catalogue

Literature
Barbara Schaefer, Die Impressionisten und ihre Nachfolger. Die Bilder der Fondation Corboud, erschienen in der Reihe: Wallraf-Richartz-Museum & Fondation Corboud Köln, Bildhefte zur Sammlung, Cologne 2006, p. 53, 105, ill. 45

From around 1885, the painter Albert Dubois-Pillet from Paris created numerous landscapes, cityscapes and seascapes in a pointillist technique. Inspired by Georges Seurat, the founder of pointillism, he developed a divisionist style of brushwork during his transition from impressionism, and he was also the first to apply this technique to portraits.
Dubois – he began using the maiden name of his mother, Pillet, in 1884 – was a trained French officer, who served in the Franco-Prussian War of 1870/71 and was even briefly a prisoner of war. He became interested in art early on, and he trained from the mid 1870s as an autodidact and under the direction of the artists Seurat and Signac, with whom he was friends. In 1884, after being denied permission to participate in the Salon, Dubois-Pillet founded the artists association “Société des Artistes Indépendants”, writing its statues and serving as its organiser.
The landscape “Champs en Ile-de-France”, which is on auction here, is from Corboud’s excellent collection of impressionists. For the field lying in the foreground, Dubois-Pillet has selected little dabs of green, red and yellow paint. The forest that closes the scene off at the back has been painted with a bold mix of violet and dark green tones. The sky behind it appears in light yellow, becoming darker towards the upper edge of the picture. Three trees with red and brown leaves rise up to link all the picture’s planes together. While Dubois-Pillet has still used the dots in the lower half of the picture to describe individual flowers, stalks and leaves, the paint increasingly gathers into coloured shapes towards the horizon. On the whole he has created a vibrant landscape painting full of blooming cornflowers. Its dating to 1889/1890 makes it one of his final pictures.
Albert Dubois-Pillet, Champs en Ile-de-France
Öl auf Leinwand. 31,6 x 40,7 cm. Gerahmt. Unten rechts schwarz signiert 'dUBois PillEt'. - Schöne, farbfrische Erhaltung. Am oberen Bildrand und an der rechten oberen Ecke winzige Farbverluste.

Provenienz
1926 - 1938 Kunstsalon Hermann Abels, Köln (rückseitig auf der Leinwand mit Etikett); Sammlung Corboud, Dauerleihgabe im Wallraf-Richartz-Museum - Fondation Corboud, Köln

Ausstellungen
Köln 2001 (Wallraf-Richartz-Museum - Fondation Corboud), Miracle de la couleur. Die Fondation Corboud, außer Katalog

Literatur
Barbara Schaefer, Die Impressionisten und ihre Nachfolger. Die Bilder der Fondation Corboud, erschienen in der Reihe: Wallraf-Richartz-Museum & Fondation Corboud Köln, Bildhefte zur Sammlung, Köln 2006, S. 53, 105, Abb. 45

Seit etwa 1885 schuf der aus Paris stammende Maler Albert Dubois-Pillet zahlreiche Landschaften, Stadtansichten und Seestücke in pointillistischer Technik. Angeregt von Georges Seurat, dem Begründer des Pointillismus, hatte er sich vom Impressionismus kommend den divisionistischen Farbauftrag erarbeitet und wandte diese Technik als Erster auch auf Porträts an.
Dubois – den Mädchennamen seiner Mutter, Pillet, führte er seit 1884 – war ursprünglich Offizier, der im preußisch-französischen Krieg 1870/71 diente. Sein Interesse galt schon früh der Kunst, so dass er sich ab Mitte der 1870er Jahre autodidaktisch und unter Anleitung seiner Künstlerfreunde Seurat und Signac ausbildete. Nachdem ihm die Teilnahme am Salon verweigert wurde, gründete Dubois-Pillet 1884 die unabhängige Künstlervereinigung „Société des Artistes Indépendants“.
Die zum Aufruf kommende Landschaft "Champs en Ile-de-France" stammt aus der exzellenten Impressionisten-Sammlung Corboud. Für das im Vordergrund liegende Feld wählte Dubois-Pillet eine Vielzahl von roten und gelben Farbpunkten. Den Wald am Horizont setzte er mit einer kühnen Mischung aus violetten und dunkelgrünen Tönen um. Der Himmel darüber erscheint in hellem Gelb und changiert zum oberen Bildrand in verschiedenen Nuancen. Drei hochgewachsene Bäume mit rot-braunem Laub verbinden die Bildebenen miteinander. Setzte Dubois-Pillet die Punkte in der unteren Bildhälfte noch dazu ein, die einzelnen Blumen, Halme und Blätter zu beschreiben, zog er die Farben zum Horizont hin mehr zu Farbflächen zusammen. Die Datierung von 1889/1890 weist dieses lebendige, stimmungsvolle Landschaftsbild als eines seiner letzten Werke aus.
Albert Dubois-Pillet, Champs en Ile-de-France
Oil on canvas. 31.6 x 40.7 cm. Framed. Signed 'dUBois PillEt' in black lower right. - In fine condition with fresh colours. Few minute losses of colour to upper edge and upper right corner.

Provenance
1926 - 1938 Kunstsalon Hermann Abels, Cologne (label verso on canvas); Collection Corboud, long-term loan to Wallraf-Richartz-Museum - Fondation Corboud, Cologne

Exhibitions
Cologne 2001 (Wallraf-Richartz-Museum - Fondation Corboud), Miracle de la couleur. Die Fondation Corboud, aside from catalogue

Literature
Barbara Schaefer, Die Impressionisten und ihre Nachfolger. Die Bilder der Fondation Corboud, erschienen in der Reihe: Wallraf-Richartz-Museum & Fondation Corboud Köln, Bildhefte zur Sammlung, Cologne 2006, p. 53, 105, ill. 45

From around 1885, the painter Albert Dubois-Pillet from Paris created numerous landscapes, cityscapes and seascapes in a pointillist technique. Inspired by Georges Seurat, the founder of pointillism, he developed a divisionist style of brushwork during his transition from impressionism, and he was also the first to apply this technique to portraits.
Dubois – he began using the maiden name of his mother, Pillet, in 1884 – was a trained French officer, who served in the Franco-Prussian War of 1870/71 and was even briefly a prisoner of war. He became interested in art early on, and he trained from the mid 1870s as an autodidact and under the direction of the artists Seurat and Signac, with whom he was friends. In 1884, after being denied permission to participate in the Salon, Dubois-Pillet founded the artists association “Société des Artistes Indépendants”, writing its statues and serving as its organiser.
The landscape “Champs en Ile-de-France”, which is on auction here, is from Corboud’s excellent collection of impressionists. For the field lying in the foreground, Dubois-Pillet has selected little dabs of green, red and yellow paint. The forest that closes the scene off at the back has been painted with a bold mix of violet and dark green tones. The sky behind it appears in light yellow, becoming darker towards the upper edge of the picture. Three trees with red and brown leaves rise up to link all the picture’s planes together. While Dubois-Pillet has still used the dots in the lower half of the picture to describe individual flowers, stalks and leaves, the paint increasingly gathers into coloured shapes towards the horizon. On the whole he has created a vibrant landscape painting full of blooming cornflowers. Its dating to 1889/1890 makes it one of his final pictures.
Albert Dubois-Pillet, Champs en Ile-de-France
Öl auf Leinwand. 31,6 x 40,7 cm. Gerahmt. Unten rechts schwarz signiert 'dUBois PillEt'. - Schöne, farbfrische Erhaltung. Am oberen Bildrand und an der rechten oberen Ecke winzige Farbverluste.

Provenienz
1926 - 1938 Kunstsalon Hermann Abels, Köln (rückseitig auf der Leinwand mit Etikett); Sammlung Corboud, Dauerleihgabe im Wallraf-Richartz-Museum - Fondation Corboud, Köln

Ausstellungen
Köln 2001 (Wallraf-Richartz-Museum - Fondation Corboud), Miracle de la couleur. Die Fondation Corboud, außer Katalog

Literatur
Barbara Schaefer, Die Impressionisten und ihre Nachfolger. Die Bilder der Fondation Corboud, erschienen in der Reihe: Wallraf-Richartz-Museum & Fondation Corboud Köln, Bildhefte zur Sammlung, Köln 2006, S. 53, 105, Abb. 45

Seit etwa 1885 schuf der aus Paris stammende Maler Albert Dubois-Pillet zahlreiche Landschaften, Stadtansichten und Seestücke in pointillistischer Technik. Angeregt von Georges Seurat, dem Begründer des Pointillismus, hatte er sich vom Impressionismus kommend den divisionistischen Farbauftrag erarbeitet und wandte diese Technik als Erster auch auf Porträts an.
Dubois – den Mädchennamen seiner Mutter, Pillet, führte er seit 1884 – war ursprünglich Offizier, der im preußisch-französischen Krieg 1870/71 diente. Sein Interesse galt schon früh der Kunst, so dass er sich ab Mitte der 1870er Jahre autodidaktisch und unter Anleitung seiner Künstlerfreunde Seurat und Signac ausbildete. Nachdem ihm die Teilnahme am Salon verweigert wurde, gründete Dubois-Pillet 1884 die unabhängige Künstlervereinigung „Société des Artistes Indépendants“.
Die zum Aufruf kommende Landschaft "Champs en Ile-de-France" stammt aus der exzellenten Impressionisten-Sammlung Corboud. Für das im Vordergrund liegende Feld wählte Dubois-Pillet eine Vielzahl von roten und gelben Farbpunkten. Den Wald am Horizont setzte er mit einer kühnen Mischung aus violetten und dunkelgrünen Tönen um. Der Himmel darüber erscheint in hellem Gelb und changiert zum oberen Bildrand in verschiedenen Nuancen. Drei hochgewachsene Bäume mit rot-braunem Laub verbinden die Bildebenen miteinander. Setzte Dubois-Pillet die Punkte in der unteren Bildhälfte noch dazu ein, die einzelnen Blumen, Halme und Blätter zu beschreiben, zog er die Farben zum Horizont hin mehr zu Farbflächen zusammen. Die Datierung von 1889/1890 weist dieses lebendige, stimmungsvolle Landschaftsbild als eines seiner letzten Werke aus.

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