Artwork Details
Artist
Creation Date
Materials
Object Types
Dimensions
39-3/8 x 28-3/8 in. (canvas) 46 x 35-1/2 in. (framed)
Mark Description
Inscribed on canvase, verso: (atelier monogram)
Accession Number
Credit Line
Gift of the Alliance of the Indianapolis Museum of Art
Copyright
Collection
European Painting and Sculpture 1800-1945
Color Palette
Provenance
By descent to the artist's daughter, Sylvie Mora-Lacombe;{1} (Georges Martin du Nord, Paris);{2} purchased by the Indianapolis Museum of Art in 1984 (84.202). {1} As noted in Joëlle Ansieau, Georges Lacombe 1868-1916: catalogue raisonné, Paris 1998, catalogue no. 41 (illustrated). Ansieau had sustained contact over many years with the artist's two daughters: Sylvie [born 1898] and Nigelle [born 1900]. {2} See correspondence from the dealers Georges and Anne Martin du Nord, Paris, from 1984 and 1985 in IMA Historical File (1984.202).
Gallery Labels
• Influenced by Gauguin, Lacombe espoused the artist's right to interpret nature according to his own imagination. During the mid-1890s he painted the steep cliffs of Vorhor in Brittany, suggesting human forms amid the craggy rocks. He also exaggerated nature's colors, choosing vivid tints of turquoise, mauve, and gold.
• From Japanese prints Lacombe borrowed the flattened perspective and stylized treatment ofthe breaking waves. Drawn into the narrow gap where the sea pounds the shore, the viewer senses an air of foreboding and a mystical element that binds Lacombe to the Symbolist movement.
Exhibition History
Exhibition Name
Venue
Dates
(Re)discovering Georges Lacombe
Musée Maurice Denis
November 13, 2012 - January 27, 2013
Georges Lacombe
Musée de Pont-Aven
June 27, 1998 - September 28, 1998
Indianapolis Museum of Art
February 24, 1996 - April 2, 1996
From Monet to Matisse: Landscape Painting in France
National Galleries of Scotland, Edinburgh
August 11, 1994 - October 23, 1994
French Symbolist painters
Walker Art Gallery
1972 - 1972
French Symbolist painters
Hayward Gallery
1972 - 1972
Georges Lacombe, 1869-1916, Le Nabi Sculpteur
Galerie André Pacitti
1969 - 1969
The Nabis and Their Friends
Städtische Kunsthalle
1963 - 1963
Gauguin and the Pont-Aven Group (Pont-Aven: Gauguin und sein Kreis in der Bretagne)
Kunsthaus Zürich
Dates Unknown
Gauguin and the Pont-Aven Group
Tate Britain
Dates Unknown
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