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FÉLICIEN CACAN (1880-1979) "Monkeys and macaws in the jungle" circa 1914-1922 Rare three-leaf folding screen. Mixed media, including silver and gold paint. The frame painted black, the back painted silver. Signed F. CACAN on the right panel, countersigned F. CACAN and marked Exposition Rouen on the back. Size of unfolded screen: 222 x 260 cm Scattered paint chips and damage, particularly on the frame. This lot will be on view until March 13 at Emmanuel Eyraud - 27 rue Saint-Dominique 75007 Paris - Tel. +33.(0)1.45.54.97.51 Provenance : The work has remained in the artist's family. Public collection and related works : Center national d'art et de culture Georges Pompidou, Paris - Our work is to be compared with a drawing entitled Avant-projet, jeux d'or and two Esquisse[s] pour paravent respectively conserved in this institution under inventory numbers AM 4671 D (1), AM 4671 D (2) and AM 4671 D (3). Exhibitions and related works : - Exposition de peintures, études et dessins, de M. F. Cacan - Galerie Reitlinger, Paris, February - March 1914. Our work to be compared with a study for a screen exhibited at this show. - Salon de la Société nationale des Beaux-Arts - Paris, April 30 - June 30, 1922. Our work to be compared with the five-leaf folding screen exhibited in the Decorative Arts section of this show. Related bibliography and works - La Renaissance politique, littéraire et artistique - N° of February 28, 1914. Our work to be compared with a "sketch for a screen showing monkeys chasing macaws with their plumage shining through the foliage of a sort of large gilded scroll", as described by Robert Hénard, page 588. - Catalog du Salon de la Société nationale des Beaux-Arts - Catalogue of the exhibition held in Paris from April 30 to June 30, 1922. Our work to be compared with a five-leaf folding screen (illustrated in L'Art et les Artistes, N° 27, May 1922), listed under catalog no. 1806, in the Decorative Arts section, page 252. - L'Art et les Artistes - N° 27, May 1922. Our work to be compared with the screen fragment reproduced on page 315, in the article entitled L'art décoratif au Salon, relating to the eponymous section of the 1922 Salon de la Société nationale des Beaux-Arts. Félicien CACAN (1880-1979) A painter whose name is unfairly overlooked, Félicien Cacan was in fact a multi-talented artist of great inventiveness. His works are diverse in subject, form and style - all marked by his imagination, ingenuity and poetry. Trained at the École des Beaux-Arts, then the École des Arts Décoratifs, Cacan handled both drawing and easel painting, illustrated famous books and created murals and decorative elements. His open-mindedness and great freedom explain the great variety that characterizes his work. A regular participant in the salons of the day, his name appears in many different sections, including painting and the decorative arts. As a disciple and friend of Jacques-Émile Blanche (1861-1942), Félicien Cacan devoted himself primarily to the art of portraiture, landscapes and still lifes; although he retained from Blanche's art above all the use of light and the transmission of a certain feeling, the vector of their shared great modernity. Among his works are landscapes of Seine-Maritime - painted when he visited Blanche in Varengeville-sur-Mer - or Venice, nude studies, flower paintings and other vibrant portraits. But, as an insatiably curious artist, he also tried his hand at creating screens and decorative panels - which he adorned with the motif of abundant vegetation, made up of gold-and-silver foliage, and featuring monkeys and birds. The work presented here is no exception, featuring the lush decor frequently used by the artist for his decorative pieces. Our three-leaf screen reveals the motif of a twisting tree trunk, from which large leaves proliferate. Two monkeys are lounging on the tree, watching each other, and three macaws with their blue-green plumage are further away. The golden ripples that surround the composition give the illusion that nature is evolving around a river - as if to punctuate the jungle atmosphere. In this highly decorative work, Félicien Cacan succeeds in conjuring up the image of an opulent, teeming jungle, of nature taking its course and which we can almost hear. Ex
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FÉLICIEN CACAN (1880-1979) "Monkeys and macaws in the jungle" circa 1914-1922 Rare three-leaf folding screen. Mixed media, including silver and gold paint. The frame painted black, the back painted silver. Signed F. CACAN on the right panel, countersigned F. CACAN and marked Exposition Rouen on the back. Size of unfolded screen: 222 x 260 cm Scattered paint chips and damage, particularly on the frame. This lot will be on view until March 13 at Emmanuel Eyraud - 27 rue Saint-Dominique 75007 Paris - Tel. +33.(0)1.45.54.97.51 Provenance : The work has remained in the artist's family. Public collection and related works : Center national d'art et de culture Georges Pompidou, Paris - Our work is to be compared with a drawing entitled Avant-projet, jeux d'or and two Esquisse[s] pour paravent respectively conserved in this institution under inventory numbers AM 4671 D (1), AM 4671 D (2) and AM 4671 D (3). Exhibitions and related works : - Exposition de peintures, études et dessins, de M. F. Cacan - Galerie Reitlinger, Paris, February - March 1914. Our work to be compared with a study for a screen exhibited at this show. - Salon de la Société nationale des Beaux-Arts - Paris, April 30 - June 30, 1922. Our work to be compared with the five-leaf folding screen exhibited in the Decorative Arts section of this show. Related bibliography and works - La Renaissance politique, littéraire et artistique - N° of February 28, 1914. Our work to be compared with a "sketch for a screen showing monkeys chasing macaws with their plumage shining through the foliage of a sort of large gilded scroll", as described by Robert Hénard, page 588. - Catalog du Salon de la Société nationale des Beaux-Arts - Catalogue of the exhibition held in Paris from April 30 to June 30, 1922. Our work to be compared with a five-leaf folding screen (illustrated in L'Art et les Artistes, N° 27, May 1922), listed under catalog no. 1806, in the Decorative Arts section, page 252. - L'Art et les Artistes - N° 27, May 1922. Our work to be compared with the screen fragment reproduced on page 315, in the article entitled L'art décoratif au Salon, relating to the eponymous section of the 1922 Salon de la Société nationale des Beaux-Arts. Félicien CACAN (1880-1979) A painter whose name is unfairly overlooked, Félicien Cacan was in fact a multi-talented artist of great inventiveness. His works are diverse in subject, form and style - all marked by his imagination, ingenuity and poetry. Trained at the École des Beaux-Arts, then the École des Arts Décoratifs, Cacan handled both drawing and easel painting, illustrated famous books and created murals and decorative elements. His open-mindedness and great freedom explain the great variety that characterizes his work. A regular participant in the salons of the day, his name appears in many different sections, including painting and the decorative arts. As a disciple and friend of Jacques-Émile Blanche (1861-1942), Félicien Cacan devoted himself primarily to the art of portraiture, landscapes and still lifes; although he retained from Blanche's art above all the use of light and the transmission of a certain feeling, the vector of their shared great modernity. Among his works are landscapes of Seine-Maritime - painted when he visited Blanche in Varengeville-sur-Mer - or Venice, nude studies, flower paintings and other vibrant portraits. But, as an insatiably curious artist, he also tried his hand at creating screens and decorative panels - which he adorned with the motif of abundant vegetation, made up of gold-and-silver foliage, and featuring monkeys and birds. The work presented here is no exception, featuring the lush decor frequently used by the artist for his decorative pieces. Our three-leaf screen reveals the motif of a twisting tree trunk, from which large leaves proliferate. Two monkeys are lounging on the tree, watching each other, and three macaws with their blue-green plumage are further away. The golden ripples that surround the composition give the illusion that nature is evolving around a river - as if to punctuate the jungle atmosphere. In this highly decorative work, Félicien Cacan succeeds in conjuring up the image of an opulent, teeming jungle, of nature taking its course and which we can almost hear. Ex
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