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( 1885 – 1945 )

“La Vendange – Marquayrol”

Specifications

MediumOil on canvas
SignedSigned lower right
Size30.00" × 36.00" (76.2cm × 91.4cm)
Framed Size34.00" × 40.00" (86.4cm × 101.6cm)
Dated c. 1920
ConditionVery good condition
ProvenancePrivate collection - France
The location of this work is believed to be under the vines at Marquayrol the family home of the Martin family. With thanks to Mme. Marie-Anne Destrbecq Martin who has kindly advised us on this work.
This work is accompanied by a certificate of authenticity from Yann Farinaux Le Sidaner
Mr Yann Le Sidaner writes .... "Claude René Martin passed away during the Second World War in Saint-Jean-Cap-Ferrat, in my grandmother's arms. As he was a very close friend of my grandparents (Louis Le Sidaner was the painter's son), I inherited his relevant documentation.
I have not found a specific record of your lovely painting—which was almost certainly painted at Marquayrol—but it is, of course, authentic."

Summary

A dark-haired young woman in a white summer blouse, seen in profile, reaches up into a heavily-laden vine to gather its fruit, a picked bunch of blue-black grapes already gathered in her lowered hand. Around her the pergola hangs thick with clustered grapes and broad leaves, and the whole canvas shimmers with high-summer light — the foliage woven from broken touches of emerald and acid green, the grapes dabbed in as jewels of blue and violet, the shaded ground behind her flushed with rose and turquoise. It is an image of youth, sunlight and fruitfulness, tender in feeling and radiant in colour. The picture is the work of Claude-René Martin, elder son of the great Post-Impressionist Henri Martin, and it wears that inheritance openly. The vibrating, divisionist-derived touch, the high-keyed palette and the sun-dappled intimacy are the language of his father's celebrated garden and harvest scenes, here carried into the son's own hand and concentrated on a single, gently observed figure. The subject — the grape harvest, or vendange — belongs to the sunlit Lot countryside around the Martin family's estate of Marquayrol, the setting that inspired so much of the family's finest work. A charming and luminous example, uniting the Martin family manner with the timeless poetry of the harvest.
£17,500.00
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    Claude Rene Martin

    Claude-René Martin was a French painter, wood-engraver and illustrator, the elder of the two painter sons of the great Post-Impressionist Henri Martin. Born René Jean Martin in the 14th arrondissement of Paris on 15 June 1885 — the signing name "Claude-René Martin" was his own…

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