"Jean-julien Lemordant - Large Antique Scene 2"
Second watercolor by Jean-Julien Lemordant on a theme not Breton but ancient or mythological.
In very good condition, nice frame.
Dimensions; 75 cm x 59 cm with frame, 58 cm x 42 cm for the basin, on sight.
Signed lower right I tried to reduce the reflections of the glass, without much success, this painting is even more striking visually!
"Jean-Julien Lemordant's father was a mason, perhaps an occasional sailor, and his mother a housewife. According to what was told at the time of the painter's triumphant return to his native town in January 1923, his grandfather would have been a "former corsair”. Orphaned as a teenager, without resources, Jean-Julien Lemordant succeeded in studying painting in Rennes then in Paris in the studio of Léon Bonnat. Former student of the Regional School of fine arts of Rennes where he was the classmate of Camille Godet, Pierre Lenoir and Albert Bourget, Jean-Julien Lemordant lost his sight during the First World War, in October 1915 during the Battle of Artois, but recovered it in 1935. A painter of Brittany and the sea, he has sometimes been called a "Breton fauve", although he worked mainly in Paris. His very colorful palette is one of his main qualities and he knows how to represent the movements of men admirably, dances, but also those of the sea, the wind, the rain. main work remains the great decoration commissioned from him by the mayor of Rennes, Jean Janvier, to decorate the ceiling of the theatre, today the Opera. Realized with great speed, the work was set up in 1914. It represents a frenzied Breton dance with multiple characters. We know of at least 60 preparatory studies for this great composition, the Rennes Museum of Fine Arts keeping one. We should also point out the decor designed, on the general theme of Brittany, for the Hôtel de l'Épée in Quimper. Threatened with disappearance when the hotel closed in 1975, it was acquired by the Quimper Museum of Fine Arts, but the lack of space did not allow it to be exhibited until after the museum was completely renovated in 1993.
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