Antoine Gadan (1854-1934) - Orientalist - "the Camp In The Wadi" - Bône - Algeria flag

Antoine Gadan (1854-1934) - Orientalist - "the Camp In The Wadi" - Bône - Algeria

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"Antoine Gadan (1854-1934) - Orientalist - "the Camp In The Wadi" - Bône - Algeria"
Antoine GADAN (1854-1934) Orientalist - The Camp in the Oued - in Algeria - Oil painting on canvas by Mr. Antoine GADAN (born in Seurre in Côte d'Or in 1854 and died in Bône, Annaba, in Algeria in 1934) oil painting on frame, signed lower left, undated. The dimensions of the canvas are: height of 41 cm x Width of 73 cm The frame is 11 cm wide by 7.5 cm deep. Bibliography Antoine Gadan arrived in Algiers at the age of 27 in 1881 and lived on a farm belonging to the Count of Sonis near Bône (Annaba). He painted rural subjects which earned him the nickname of "painter of herbs". His painting is full of poetry and sincerity. Gadan is a glory of Bône, present at the Universal Exhibition of 1900, he receives the Vermeil medal from the hands of Rochegrosse. Many works are preserved in the Museums of Fine Arts of Algiers and Constantine. Antoine Gadan, born in Seurre in Côte d'Or, learned his trade as a painter in his native country, in a self-taught manner, and some early works representing the Burgundy countryside still bear witness to this, but it is in his adopted country, Algeria, that he developed his exceptional talent as a landscaper. A whole part of the Gadan family, of modest origins, his father was a tavern keeper, left for Algeria to seek a better life and the young painter, then aged twenty-seven, stayed in Marseille while waiting to embark, with his parents, his brother, his wife and his first son Charles. Two paintings presented in Paris in 1895, at the Salon des Artistes français, brought him to favourable attention: "The White River at El Kantara" and "Algerian Night". They were followed by "The Red River at El Kantara" at the 1896 Salon. Recognised from then on as a landscaper and decorator, Gadan was commissioned to paint the diorama intended to decorate the Algerian Pavilion at the Trocadéro, during the Universal Exhibition of 1900. He chose to illustrate "The Algerian Coast from Bône to Oran", a pretext to parade the most beautiful sites of the Algerian shores in a veritable pictorial journey. This immense diorama, which was exhibited in London and New York, after Paris, was a great public success, while arousing praise for its author from the jury, in particular from the history painter Édouard Detaille and the landscaper Jules Breton, a member of the Académie des beaux-arts. Subsequently, Gadan was honoured with an exhibition of fifteen paintings at the Constantine Museum in 1908, organised on the initiative of the curator M. Hinglais. That same year ended with a warm welcome at the Salon d'Automne in Algiers, where the critic C. Monplessis praised "the intense poem of luminous life" in which "the amethyst pink fluidity through which (Gadan) shows us the Bônoise dune" unfolds. The bard of eastern Algeria was then at his peak, nicknamed the "glory of Bône". We do not know much more about the apparently peaceful and quiet existence of this artist whose works have their place among the best painters of Algeria. Museums: Algiers, Constantine, Paris (Porte Dorée and Quai Branly)...
Price: 3 900 €
Artist: Antoine Gadan - (1854-1934)
Period: 20th century
Style: Orientalism
Condition: Excellent condition

Material: Oil painting
Length: 73
Height: 41

Reference: 1481707
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