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Jean Marie REIGNIER (1815-1886) White Lily, 1842 Gouache on paper, signed and dated lower left 37.5 x 26.5 cm (view) Exhibition/Bibliography: Lyon, Musée des Beaux-Arts, Fleurs de Lyon 1807-1917, June-September 1982, n°151, reproduced and described in the exhibition catalog on page 284 and 285, by a text co-signed by Élisabeth Hardouin-Fugier and Étienne Grafe: "A blue-gray ribbon with metallic breaks runs around a stem bearing three very open lilium candidum flowers and eight others of which the upper ones are still in bud. In this youthful gouache, roughly contemporary with his very first entries to the Salon, Reignier demonstrates the qualities and flaws that would mark most of his work. The plasticity of the volumes is a tribute to Thierriat perhaps, to Berjon most certainly, as well as the frankness of the coloring..." (Loan label for this exhibition on the back) Bibliography: Hardouin Grafe. The Beautiful is the splendor of the True. Lyon, Facultés Catholiques, 1977; Lyon School, pl. 31. Élisabeth Hardouin-Fugier and Étienne Grafe, Les Peintres de fleurs en France de Redouté à Redon, Paris, Édition de l'Amateur, 1992 reproduced full page 134 Small scratches, slight rubbing and traces of fine folding
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Jean Marie REIGNIER (1815-1886) White Lily, 1842 Gouache on paper, signed and dated lower left 37.5 x 26.5 cm (view) Exhibition/Bibliography: Lyon, Musée des Beaux-Arts, Fleurs de Lyon 1807-1917, June-September 1982, n°151, reproduced and described in the exhibition catalog on page 284 and 285, by a text co-signed by Élisabeth Hardouin-Fugier and Étienne Grafe: "A blue-gray ribbon with metallic breaks runs around a stem bearing three very open lilium candidum flowers and eight others of which the upper ones are still in bud. In this youthful gouache, roughly contemporary with his very first entries to the Salon, Reignier demonstrates the qualities and flaws that would mark most of his work. The plasticity of the volumes is a tribute to Thierriat perhaps, to Berjon most certainly, as well as the frankness of the coloring..." (Loan label for this exhibition on the back) Bibliography: Hardouin Grafe. The Beautiful is the splendor of the True. Lyon, Facultés Catholiques, 1977; Lyon School, pl. 31. Élisabeth Hardouin-Fugier and Étienne Grafe, Les Peintres de fleurs en France de Redouté à Redon, Paris, Édition de l'Amateur, 1992 reproduced full page 134 Small scratches, slight rubbing and traces of fine folding
