- Title:
- Nature Morte [Still Life]
- Object name(s):
- Prints
- Brief description:
- Cubist still life featuring a plant in a jug, an open book on a desk, a modern brown jug, and an unframed painting on canvas. Drawn in an angular line but without cubist facets. Light grey on the left margin has textured areas similar to that created by a rocker in mezzotint. Paper has the watermark \'RIVES\'. Printed in red, orange, brown, four greys, black, blue, pink, three greens, beige, purple and yellow-green
- Collection:
- Aberystwyth University, School of Art Museum & Gallery
- Acquisition date:
- 1960-1974
- Acquisition funding source:
- Gulbenkian Foundation
- Acquisition method:
- Purchase
- Dimension:
- Width
- Dimension value:
- 375
- Dimension:
- Height
- Dimension value:
- 283
- Inscription content:
- (pencil, lower left margin) 15/50, (pencil, verso) Nature Morte / André Lhote
- Material:
- Colour lithograph on white wove Rives paper
- Object name:
- Prints
- Object number:
- PR964
- Object production date:
- 1940
- Date - earliest / single:
- 1940
- Date - latest:
- 1962
- Object production person:
- André Lhote
- Person's association:
- artist (after)
- Person's biographical note:
- Painter, sculptor and writer. Served an apprenticeship to an ornamental sculptor, 1897, before studying sculpture at the École des Beaux-Arts in Bordeaux, 1898-1904. He turned to painting in 1905 and settled in Paris the following year where he painted Fauvist and Cubist landscapes, portraits and still lifes. In 1922 he founded his own art school, the Académie Montparnasse, later establishing a branch in Rio de Janeiro where Lhote visited in 1952. He was most influential as a teacher and writer and saw some of his treatises on painting published together as \'Traités du paysage et de la figure\' in 1958
- Person's birth date:
- 1885
- Person's death date:
- 1962
- Person's forenames:
- André
- Person's place of birth:
- France, Bordeaux
- Person's place of death:
- Paris
- Person's surname:
- Lhote
- Object production place:
- France
- Responsible department/section:
- Prints
- Text:
- Number 15 of an edition of 50. Could possibly be interpreted by Jacques Villon (Gaston Duchamp) (1875-1963)
- Text reason:
- Collections online text
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Use licence for this record: CC BY-NC
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