Etienne DINET (1861-1929) - Lot 175

Etienne DINET (1861-1929) Two adolescent girls perched on a tree, circa 1904-1907 Gouache on card signed lower right, dedicated "Pour mon ami Bouchor, mille amitiés" ("For my friend Bouchor, a thousand friends"). On the back of the frame, an old label with the handwritten inscription "Félix Bouchor 21 Rue du Vieux-Colombier" in the 6th arrondissement of Paris. Bouchor lived at this address from 1902 until 1905, according to the catalogs of the Salon des Artistes Français. In 1906, he did not exhibit there. In 1907, he lived at 70 rue d'Assas in Paris. 49.4 x 32.8 cm Provenance: former collection of the painter Joseph-Félix BOUCHOR (1853-1937), a frequent visitor to Héricy in Héricy (Seine-et-Marne), where the Dinet-Cornille family owned a château (now the Héricy town hall). Héricy town hall). "It was probably during a series of artistic correspondences between the two men between the two men that Dinet donated this work to Félix Bouchor". Expert : Expertises Tellier, Paris / Marc-Henri TELLIER, CEFA member A certificate of authenticity from Mr. Koudir BENCHIKOU dated November 17, 2008 will be given to the buyer. In this gouache composition, the painter depicts two teenage girls, probably from Bou- Saãda, perched on a tree and playing. One is wearing a multicolored dress, the other a patterned white dress; their veils are made of white muslin. They wear wrist bracelets and are barefoot. The girl on the left is hanging from a lower branch than the one on the right. The tree trunk forms a curve curve and counter-curve that the two teenage girls embrace with their bodies. The chromaticism is composed of blue, green, pink, red, white, gray, black, orange, ochre and violet. There's a preoccupation with truth in this work: "a vigor of presence and a sharpness of form". Our gouache is a preparatory work for the oil-on-canvas Adolescentes dans un arbre (Adolescents in a Tree) presented for sale at Sotheby's in Paris on November 18, 2013, lot 179. The latter was kept by Jeanne Dinet-Rollince, sister of the artist, and is reproduced in her book "La vie de E. Dinet" published by Editions Maisonneuve in 1938. In addition, a small-format tempera on cardboard (26 x 17 cm) was sold at Ader-Tajan on June 18, 1993, lot 237. This work appears at no. 209 in the artist's catalog raisonné by Denise Brahimi & Koudir Benchikou, published in 1991 by ACR Edition. It was used to illustrate the book "Le désert" by Sliman ben Ibrahim and Etienne Dinet, published by Editions Henri Piazza in Henri Piazza in 1911, p. 117. This work was exhibited at the 1931 retrospective devoted to Dinet at the Exposition Coloniale Internationale, no. 53.