“Tea at Chateau de Madrid”
Specifications
| Medium | Oil on panel |
| Signed | Signed verso and titled to original artists label |
| Size | 23.50" × 19.00" (59.7cm × 48.3cm) |
| Framed Size | 31.50" × 27.00" (80.0cm × 68.6cm) |
| Dated | 1913 |
| Condition | Very good condition |
| Provenance | Hollis Taggart Galleries - New York (Inventory Number 5398) |
| Literature | The Chateau de Madrid is located in the Bois de Boulogne to the east of Paris. It was regarded as perhaps the best and finest restaurant and summer resort of Paris in the 1920's and 1920's. A favourite rendezvous of Americans in Paris and Parisian society, its allure was because you could dine and dance outdoors under the trees in the cool night air at the height of the Paris social season. The old Chateau was demolished around 1860 and the 'new’ Chateau was built in 1910 in the style of the old chateau most likely incorporating the surviving out-buildings and was thought to represent a latter day effort to repair a great artistic wrong in the demolishing of the old Chateau. It was designed from the outset as a hotel with 160 rooms and a restaurant of the more expensive kind and was under the management of M. Bonfils. It also had extensive gardens and riding stables and horse riding and taking tea in the late afternoon became a popular pastime where there was a dance floor and live music. |
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