Sigismond Jeanès (1863-1939) - Indiscretion, Faun And Nymph, Circa 1900

Sigismond Jeanès (1863-1939)
Indiscretion, Faun And Nymph, Circa 1900
Oil on parquet panel
33 x 41 cm
Signed lower left and titled on a label on reverse
Wear in the lower part

Jean-Sigismond Jeanès, landscape painter and watercolorist, was a self-taught artist who trained by copying the paintings of the great masters in Italy.
He first worked as a collaborator with Art Nouveau artists in his native Nancy, before traveling extensively in Europe, India and China. For this reason, he did not exhibit until 1906, first at the Salon d'Automne, then at the Société des Artistes Indépendants. On the strength of his success, he donated two important tapestry cartoons for Aubusson in 1925. Two of his works, "Un Soleil couchant" and "Les arbres à Puteaux", are in the Musée d'Orsay and Musée du Louvre respectively.

The artist mainly painted landscapes in watercolor and tempera, of Venice, the Alps and the Dolomites, his home and one of his favorite subjects.

An excerpt from "L'art et les artistes" about the 3rd Société Moderne exhibition (Galerie Durand-Ruel), in which Jeanès participated, appears as a veritable manifesto for this painting:
"So, he paints a moment. But, in painting this moment, he finds a way to give it, by dint of subtle observation, something permanent and general that satisfies. With the sure touch of a born artist, he first guesses which of the moments to choose... There is always one where the spectacle presents itself with its greatest force of emotion, with its most vivid beauty. MrJeanès intervenes at that moment: his highly refined art and science do the rest. Sometimes called a visionary, he is only a visionary of reality. And he knows how far he still has to go, even in his most sparkling works, to render the audacities of nature. He suggests them, and that's good enough." (Cf. L'art et les Artistes, 7th year, n°73, April 1911)

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