Oil on canvas, Men in a river by Maximilien LUCE
Oil on canvas, Men in a river by Maximilien LUCE
6.800,00 €
Reproduced in the catalog raisonné of LUCE's painted works by M. BOUIN-LUCE, under n°891, Tome II Paris 1986.
Maximilien Luce 1858-1941
. At the age of thirteen, he attended drawing classes at the Ecole des Arts Décoratifs in Paris. The following year, he joined the studio of Henri Théophile Hildibrand, who specialized in wood engraving, and later the drawing classes of the painter Diogène Maillart.
At the age of eighteen, he began working as an engraver for Eugène Froment, whose engravings were mainly used to illustrate the newspaper L'Illustration. At the same time, he painted for pleasure and studied at Carolus-Duran's studio.
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| Dimensions | 31 × 44 cm |
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From 1884 onwards, his works increasingly belonged to Divisionism, or Pointillism, a movement initiated by Georges Seurat which advocated a form of painting made up of dots of color.
The year 1895 was a turning point in the artist's life. On a personal level, his young son died of sunstroke, aged just one. From an artistic point of view, the Charleroi region of Belgium fascinated him, and he gradually abandoned divisionism to depict this region through its factories and mines (Acierie à Charleroi).
From the 20th century onwards, the painter abandoned divisionism altogether. He worked on representations of the Commune (A Paris street in May 1871), the banks of the Seine and political drawings, opposed to all forms of war.