Oil on panel, La poste mobile by Charles MARTIN-SAUVAIGO
Oil on panel, La poste mobile by Charles MARTIN-SAUVAIGO
6.200,00 €
Orient
Orientalist
Charles MARTIN-SAUVAIGO (1881-1970)
This painting goes beyond picturesque orientalism, and is a rare testimony to the artist's work.
It illustrates the meeting of cultures in a colonial context, and the first deployments of medicine in remote areas. Sauvaigo deploys his characteristic art here: vivid chromaticism, careful observation of gestures and attitudes, and above all a constant search for the vibration of light, which unites the human figures with the landscape.
With an expert hand, he translates the right way. The light of landscapes. The artist renders the colors of the Maghreb with both softness and vibrancy.
Born into a large family in Nice, young Charles showed an early talent for drawing.
Felix Ziem, attracted by his talent and technique, took him on as a pupil in his studio.
At 16, he entered the Arts-Décoratifs de Nice. He then moved on to Paris, where he studied at the Arts-Décoratifs and Beaux-Arts in the studios of Bonnat and Merson.
After obtaining his diploma as a drawing teacher from the city of Paris, he practised this profession from 1909 to 1914.
Further information
| Dimensions | 87.5 × 63.5 cm |
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From school onwards, he accumulated medals, winning numerous state commissions and building decorations.
After the First World War, when he was demobilized, he gave up teaching to devote himself exclusively to his art.
He developed his activity as a decorative painter.
In 1922, he was appointed Official Painter of the French Navy.
The interwar period was very favorable for him.
. The jury of the 1931 Exposition Coloniale gave him a strong presence: he decorated the Red Cross pavilion with a diorama depicting a dispensary in the Hanoi region, as well as Martinique and West Africa.
The 1937 Exposition Internationale gave him the opportunity to assert his talent in this particular field. As part of the Côte d'Azur pavilion, he created the largest diorama he had ever produced, 45 meters long and covering a surface area of 442 m2 ; this "Synthèse de la Côte d'Azur" (Synthesis of the Côte d'Azur) was the first of its kind in France.
This gigantic work, which impressed all visitors, as the press of the time attested, earned him a gold medal.
Charles-Martin Sauvaigo, or whom he paints, translates into his paintings the intimate poetry of the soil, customs and people that surround him.
