Auction on
21 December 2023 - 13:30 (CET) -
Salle 6 - Hôtel Drouot - 75009
Known as a member of the Grand Jeu Group, Joseph Sima (1891-1971) sought a form of unity in representation in all of his work. A prime example of his landscapes of light, Ombres portées I (Cast Shadows I), is by an artist at the height of his powers.
Joseph Sima (1891-1971), Ombres portées I (Cast Shadows I), 1967, oil on canvas, 50 x 65 cm/19.68 x 25.59 in. Estimate: €100 000/150 000
Joseph Sima (1891-1971), Ombres portées I (Cast Shadows I), 1967, oil on canvas, 50 x 65 cm/19.68 x 25.59 in. Estimate: €100 000/150 000
By 1967, Joseph Sima was known in Czechoslovakia, where he was born, and France, his adopted home. As the musée d’Art moderne de la Ville de Paris planned a major retrospective of his work and he began writing his memoirs, the artist continued painting as a man at peace. In the second half of the 1960s, he was able to retrieve his early works in Prague, where he had been unable to return since the early 1950s after the establishment of communism in Czechoslovakia. Sima, who was shaken by the war and had interrupted his painting to join the French Resistance in 1940, needed to reinvent himself. Following the passing of Robert Gilbert-Lecomte in 1943 and René Daumal in 1944, the Grand Jeu companions with whom…
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