Schwarz Gallery - Catalog 73 - Europeans & Americans Abroad



Front Matter Cover Title Page Copyright & Announcement Acknowledgments Plates [ sort by artist ] Gool, Jan van Unknown artist Still Life: Fruit and Wine Ruyten, Jan Michael Spohler, Jacob Jan Coenraad Doll, Anton Unknown artist Floral Still Life Moormans, Frans Unknown artist Sir Thomas Hammond Costa, Julio Da D’Entrayques, Charles-Bertrand Laugée, Désiré-François Bromley, William, III Hutin, Charles Jernberg, Olaf August Andreas Blommers, Bernardus Johannes Frère, Pierre-Edouard Bigg, William Redmore Munsch, Joseph Bertling, Carl Adam, Julius, II Hubner, Carl Wilhelm Heck, Robert Wilhelm Emil Ertz, Edward Frederick Herzog, Herman Seascape Norwegian Waterfall in Hemsdalen Prouvé, Victor Émile Gabani, Giuseppe Reid, Flora MacDonald Pratt, William Ranken, William Bruce Ellis Sheppard, Warren W. Nicholls, Burr H. Sadler, Walter Dendy The Battle Refought Safer Than the Bank De Faux, Alexandre Vernon, Paul Lawson, Ernest Braquaval, Louis Coudour, Henri Tellander, A. Frederick Luce, Maximilien Gall, François Villacres, Cesar A. Hayden, Henri	Maximilien Luce (French, 1858–1941) Flowers in a Vase Oil on paper mounted on canvas, 16 1/4 × 20 3/4 inches Signed at lower left: “Luce” Label (dealer) on frame verso: (typewritten) “Bouquet de Fleurs/MAXIMILIEN LUCE/1858–1941”/(printed) “Shoneman Galleries/[ . . . ]/New York” RECORDED: Denise Bazetoux and Jean Bouin-Luce, Maximilien Luce: Catalogue raisonné de l’oeuvres peint (Paris, Éditions Jeran Bouin-Luce, 1986), no. 1155, as Fleurs dans un Vase Maximilien Luce was apprenticed to the printer Hildebrans in his native Paris to learn the art of engraving, which he continued to practice with the firm of Froment in Paris and London. At the same time, he studied painting at night, even during his military service, when he worked in the studio of Émile-Auguste Carolus-Duran (1837–1917). Early in his career he was befriended by the renowned Impressionist painter Camille Pissarro (1830–1903), whose advice had great influence on the younger artist. With Paul Signac (1863–1935), Luce founded the “Neo-Impressionist” school, whose adherents sought to define form by rendering the effects of light in broken color. Luce exhibited with the avant-garde “Indépendents,” showing mostly landscapes, but also producing figural compositions that depicted the lives of the poor. His genuine concern for the less fortunate led him to participate in radical politics, which resulted in his imprisonment in the 1890s. During his long career Luce was an extremely prolific painter and printmaker. Although he never sought honors, he accepted the presidency of the Société des Artistes Indépendents after Signac’s death in 1935, only to resign in protest against the anti-Semitic policies of the Vichy government. Copyright ©2004 The Schwarz Gallery

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