Amédée De La Patelliere "bouquet In Blue Vase" Oil On Canvas 35x24

Amédée de LA PATELLIERE (1890-1932)
Oil on canvas 35x24 cm "Bouquet with blue vase" Around 1920
Monogrammed lower right, titled on the back
After classical studies in Nantes, Amédée de La Patellière decided to devote himself to painting and arrived in Paris in 1912 to follow the teaching of the Académie Julian.
He is part of this generation of painters who went through the cubist discipline which structures their work, but from which they know how to escape, tending towards an Expressionism close to their Flemish contemporaries of the School of Laethem St Martin.
La Patellière quickly acquired notoriety, exhibiting with his friends Segonzac, Gromaire, Goerg, Alix ... He illustrated books including Giono, close like him to nature and the peasant world, he painted decorations for the Hôtel de la Colombe d'Or in St Paul de Vence.
He has been the subject of important posthumous retrospectives: at the Museum of Modern Art in Paris in 45, in Belgium in 46, in Geneva, Nantes, St Tropez in the 80s, more recently at the Musée de la Piscine in Roubaix.
Many museums in France and abroad present his works.
La Patellière is fond of rural subjects whose gravity and harshness touch him, and which he paints in a greasy paste, in a very personal style, remaining faithful to the classicism of Poussin.
We could quote the critic Jean Cassou about the "bouquet with blue vase": "His painting transforms into bewitchment, into dream and into melancholy the flowers and pitchers that are on the table ...
Biblio: Benezit, Dictionnaire Edouard Joseph, La jeune Peinture Française de M. Charzat, Schurr ...
Unframed