Moïse KISLING (1891-1953) Lot n° 17

FLOWERS, 1930-1932 Oil on canvas Signed on the lower left 55 x 38 cm - 21.6 x 14.9 in. Signed on the lower left, oil on canvas Provenance - Galerie de la Présidence, Paris. Acquired directly by the mother of the current owner - Private collection, Paris Bibliography - Henri Troyat, Kisling (1891-1953), by Jean Kisling, Paris, 1982. Work reproduced under number 32 on page 198 of the work. (Erroneous dimensions in the work) "There comes a time when he is satisfied with lighting. Then he turns around the easel, caresses the canvas with the palm of his hand, caresses the brushes, caresses the tubes of colour [...]. He tramples, sketches out a small war dance step and still seeks that cadence on which the harmony of vision and execution is born. " Jean Kisling will thus evoke the way his father used to stage the flowers he was going to paint: "I remember the interminable sessions during which, after buying carefully selected flowers, my father would come and go and compose his bouquet. The search for the most suitable vase, table and background, the arrangement of stems and branches one by one, the retreat of the trained eye... When everything was ready, he began to reproduce each petal, each pistil, one by one, as faithfully as possible. He refused to imagine. The slightest bouquet required several days of work, and often the flowers were faded by the time the work was finished. Kisling, Prince de Montparnasse, Jacques Lambert, Les Editions de Paris, 2011, pp. 80-81. Moise Kisling in his Tutt'Art studio ©