Yvette Alde (1911-1967) Cannes 1962 Paris School

Very beautiful oil on canvas representing a view of Suquet. Original work by Yvette Alde (1911-1967) signed lower right and dated (19)62. Located on the back "Cannes, the port seen from the Suquet tower" Painting in very good condition A barely visible uprising to report, see photos. She was one of the great ladies of the School of Paris, equal to Yvonne Mottet, Marie Laurencin, Léonor Fini, Suzanne Duchamp. First hailed as a portraitist (we owe her an interesting face of Soutine today kept at the Museum of Modern Art of the City of Paris), Yvette Alde above all signed landscapes, nudes, exceptional bouquets, natures dead — his favorite themes, always treated with his particular touch, linked to a generous use of volume and paste, and in an immediately recognizable way. According to Lydia Harambourg's analysis: “The thick material, worked as with a trowel, acquires the luster of gems. » Without a doubt, Yvette Alde, who died too early (she was 56 years old), loved painting desperately. A passion that goes back a long way, when it was formed under the direction of two excellent masters, Charles Picart Le Doux and André Lhôte. Alongside the first, she was able to repeat the famous words of Maurice Denis: "Remember that a painting, before being a war horse, a naked woman or any anecdote, is essentially a flat surface covered with colors in a certain order assembled. » Alongside the second, she learned the art of the close-up and that of tension. Hence this painting, we repeat, immediately recognizable, powerful but incontestably poetic, which allowed him to impose his mark on the history of art. During her career, Yvette Alde was at all the annual Parisian Salons — and even present at the Salon d'Automne as early as 1932, when she was only twenty-one. She dabbled with religious subjects, surrealism and Flemish classics, thus proving the critic Jean Bouret right: “Yvette Alde, made for lyricism, sings in high notes the love of lost beauty. » His works hang in twenty-five museums and public collections, both in France and abroad.