Henri MANGUIN (Paris 1874-Saint-Tropez 1949)

The Bay of Saint-Tropez, 1924 Watercolor and pencil on paper 23 x 30 cm Signed lower left Manguin We would like to thank Madame Claude Holstein Manguin for confirming the authenticity of this work. ** This lot is presented as a temporary import "In two words, Manguin moves from the audacity of the "fauve" to sobriety - to moderation. From the end of the First World War, he locked himself into the exhaustion of his own style, unconcerned with the new avant-gardes. To the quietude of a happy family, extended to the privileged relationships of friendship, was added the good fortune of success with dealers and collectors. His themes bear witness to this happiness. And if he often returned to what he had already done, it was not without success [...] the figure blossoms in the luxuriance of a dreamlike nature: the rocking chair (the siesta) symbolizes, as early as 1905, the ethical and stylistic conceptions that also motivated Cross, Cézanne, Matisse and Derain at the turn of the century. Henri Manguin never denied his break with Fauvism. To Georges Duthuit, who remarked that paintings from this period still dominated his work in the last months of his life, he said: "It's by chance. Lucile and Claude MANGUIN, Henri Manguin, Catalogue Raisonné de l'Œuvre peint, Neuchâtel, Editions Ides et Calendes, 1980, p. 34.