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"Woman in her Dressing Room" by French artist André Lhote, who willingly worked in gouache, was created during World War II. Seated beside a table on which are a pitcher and basin, an unidentified woman, wearing a lowcut white slip or dress and teal healed shoes, reaches down to her ankle as she leans forward with her bare legs crossed. “The secret of art lies not in the degree to which a painted figure resembles the living object, but in that from which it differs,” wrote the artist, who conceived his work as a juxtaposition of forms combining straight lines and ellipses. Lhote extolled art that was constructed and premeditated as opposed to fleeting inspiration. His composition is structured and held together by a system of harmonious chromatics. Lhote displays his skill as a colorist by reducing his chromatic range and playing on the intensity of values to modulate light without ever seeking volume, which, like three-dimensionality, movement, and perspective, was likely banished from his vocabulary. Lhote limited his palette here to a few fundamentals which he broke down into flatly juxtaposed neighboring hues. Fleshtones are drawn with pink tinted with ochre or veering to violet. Blue-grey supports shadows, the bench and wall in the background. Orangish-ochres complete this range of pastels heightened by bright colors like the red of the vest or blue in a shadow in the hair. “Innocent tonal freshness and the virginal fling of a line are the prerogatives of the old artist who can allow himself to take this liberty,” wrote Lhote in Traité de la figure in 1950. Even with the most sensual subjects, such as getting dressed or undressed, the painter did not seek to enter his sitter’s psychological state. Without deviating from a sensitive silent gracefulness, this painting is a demonstration of how purity of line and equilibrium between structure and color result in formal masterpieces.
Femme à sa Toilette (Woman in her Dressing Room) by André Lhote (French) - Gouache on paper / c. 1942 #WomenInArt #ArtText #art #PortraitofaWoman #AndréLhote #Lhote #AndreLhote #Muséed'ArtModerne #cubism #GoaucheArt #womensart #cubist #FrenchArtist #FrenchArt #Goauche #artoftheday #artwork #1940s
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“Baigneuses” (Bathers). André Lhote (French; 1885–1962). Oil on canvas, 1935. Musée des Beaux-Arts Bordeaux, Bordeaux, France.
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“The Harbor of Bordeaux.” André Lhote (French; 1885–1962). Oil on canvas, 1912. Private collection.
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“Eloge à la géométrie” (Eloge to Geometry). André Lhote (French; 1885–1962). Oil on canvas, 1917. Private collection.
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