Medium: Oil on canvas
Signed: Signed with cachet lower right
Size: 40.50" x 61.00" (102.9cm x 154.9cm)
Framed Size: 44.50" x 65.00" (113.0cm x 165.1cm)
Dated: 1919
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Condition: Very good condition
Provenance:
Le Musée des Beaux-Arts- Carcassonne, Achille Laugé - "Le point, la ligne, la lumière" October - January 2010
Le Musée Petiet de Limoux
Le Musee de Douai
Le Museé de la Chartreuse.
RELATED WORKS
Achille Laugé (1861-1944), Bouquets of Dahlias, 1916, oil on canvas, 53 x 71 cm, Narbonne Museum of Art and History no. 92-3-1. (opposite)
Achille Laugé (1861-1944), Winter, 1916, oil on canvas (model), 75 x 50 cm, Manufacture des Gobelins, Mobilier national, no. GOB 492.
Achille Laugé (1861-1944), Winter, 1924-1926, single and double wool and silk tapestry, 297 x 210 cm, Manufacture des Gobelins, Mobilier national, no. GOB 719.
Literature:
This work is illustrated in - Nicole Tamburini, Achille Laugé - "Le point, la ligne, la lumière"
This work was originally commissioned for the Gailhadet estate by Mr. Castel the local elected member of the Assemblée National of France. This partially unrealized decoration was to include works of fields and flowers. The motif of the bouquet with dahlias would recur several times in the work of Achille Laugé. Its first appearance is found in an oil on canvas from 1916 preserved at the Museum of Art and History of Narbonne. The same year, the artist delivered to the Manufacture des Gobelins his models for a tapestry project commissioned by the State on the theme "The Seasons". We find there in Laugé's model and then in the tapestry executed by the Manufacture des Gobelins this motif of dahlias in a vase. Dahlias, with the multiplicity of their petals, allow Laugé to fully express his talent for color modulations and the Divisionist touch.
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Achille Laugé was born the same year as Bourdelle and Maillol, who would later become his friends. He trained to be a pharmacist in Toulouse, according to his parents' wishes, but also studied at the École des Beaux-Arts, where he met Bourdelle. In 1881 he was admitted to the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris to study in the studio of Alexandre Cabanel and Jean-Paul Laurens, where he met Maillol. He gave lodging to Bourdelle and did his military service in Paris. He left Paris in 1888 and from 1889 had a studio in Carcassonne, where he formed numerous friendships. Two years after the death of his wife, whom he had married in Cailhau in 1891, he himself died: the same year as Maillol.
By the time he left Paris, Laugé had adopted the Divisionist touch championed by the Neo-Impressionists, and adhered to it more or less closely throughout his career. From 1905, in order to paint in situ, he procured a studio-caravan. For several years from 1916 onwards he had a base in Alet (Aude) and from 1926 spent the summer months in Collioure. From 1932 he had a studio in Paris and lived next door to his friend Bourdelle. In 1913 and 1926 he produced tapestry designs in response to commissions from the Gobelins tapestry manufactory.
Laugé exhibited three paintings in Paris at the 1894 Salon des Indépendants and the same year featured in an exhibition alongside Bonnard, Maurice Denis, Sérusier, Roussel, Toulouse-Lautrec and Vuillard in Toulouse. In 1900 a large composition by him was rejected by the Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts, and in 1908 he was rejected by the Salon d'Automne. Laugé had his first solo exhibition in Paris in 1907, followed by many others (1911, 1919, 1923, 1927, 1929, 1930). He also showed collections of his works in 1926 in Toulouse and Perpignan. In 1968 he featured in the exhibition on Neo-Impressionism at the Guggenheim Museum in New York. Other retrospective exhibitions took place at the following: the Musée de Limoux (1958); the Musée des Grands-Augustins in Toulouse (1961); London (1966); New York (1967); London (1968); and Paris (1969).
Museum and Gallery Holdings
Carcassonne (MBA)
Limoux (Mus. Petiet)
Montauban (Mus. Ingres)
Montpellier (Mus. Fabre)
Paris (MNAM-CCI)
Perpignan (Mus. Hyacinthe-Rigaud)
Toulouse (MBA, Mus. des Augustins)
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