Couple by a lake
Oil on canvas
Signed lower right
Oil on canvas, signed lower right
60 x 73 cm - 23 5/8 x 28 3/4 in.
Madame Florence Valdes-Forain has confirmed the authenticity of this work, which will be included in the Jean-Louis
Forain catalogue raisonné that she is currently preparing. A notice of inclusion will be given to the buyer.
PROVENANCE Galerie La Scala, Paris
Private collection, France (acquired from the latter) "Forain's painting is obviously what we know least about him. Scattered in collections, his early paintings are almost unknown to the general public. [...]
That Forain's admiration for the masters he loved, Manet, Degas, is felt in them is hard to dispute. Natural affinities, no doubt, and not imitation. But it is the same voluntary pursuit of the truth. The techniques are similar, even to the ways of layout. Yet, in this very objective art, the painter's sensitivity already appears, if one looks closely, in vigorously personal features."
René Chavance, "Une belle rétrospective,
Jean-Louis Forain, peintre et dessinateur", in
La Liberté, 19 December 1931, nº24906, p. 2
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