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ANDRÉ BAUCHANT (1873-1958) HEAD OF A MAN WITH A MOUSTACHE, 1925 Oil on canvas mounted on Isorel Signed and dated lower right Oil on canvas laid on hardboard; signed and dated lower right 33,8 x 26,2 cm - 13 1/4 x 10 1/4 in. PROVENANCE Paris, Galerie Dina Vierny. Acquired from the latter then by descent. Private collection, France. "In his own way, Bauchant, like the poet Francis Jammes, is a Franciscan cantor of the Christian Georgics who gives a primitive and reassuring vision of the world around him. Materially a little, and morally especially, he is supported by a circle of artists, Parisian personalities who are his first buyers: Le Corbusier, Ozenfant, Serge Lifar, Diaghilev, Jean Lurçat. Jeanne Bucher, who organized his first two private exhibitions on the Champs-Elysées in 1927 and 1928, accompanied him for a long time, demanding the quality of his works. After fourteen years of a formative and profitable collaboration with Bauchant, she wrote to him: "I abdicate, after having had the ambition to push you, to hold you, to prevent you from taking a false direction. But in 1928, success was not yet on the horizon. Serge Diaghilev commissioned him to design the sets for the Ballets Russes' Apollo Musagète to music by Stravinsky, an opera that was given in June 1928 at the Théâtre Sarah-Bernhardt with great acclaim. For the first performances, the costumes will be by Bauchant, later, they will be signed Coco Chanel." Alain Troadec, André Bauchant, Acatos, Lausanne: 1998, p. 181.
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ANDRÉ BAUCHANT (1873-1958) HEAD OF A MAN WITH A MOUSTACHE, 1925 Oil on canvas mounted on Isorel Signed and dated lower right Oil on canvas laid on hardboard; signed and dated lower right 33,8 x 26,2 cm - 13 1/4 x 10 1/4 in. PROVENANCE Paris, Galerie Dina Vierny. Acquired from the latter then by descent. Private collection, France. "In his own way, Bauchant, like the poet Francis Jammes, is a Franciscan cantor of the Christian Georgics who gives a primitive and reassuring vision of the world around him. Materially a little, and morally especially, he is supported by a circle of artists, Parisian personalities who are his first buyers: Le Corbusier, Ozenfant, Serge Lifar, Diaghilev, Jean Lurçat. Jeanne Bucher, who organized his first two private exhibitions on the Champs-Elysées in 1927 and 1928, accompanied him for a long time, demanding the quality of his works. After fourteen years of a formative and profitable collaboration with Bauchant, she wrote to him: "I abdicate, after having had the ambition to push you, to hold you, to prevent you from taking a false direction. But in 1928, success was not yet on the horizon. Serge Diaghilev commissioned him to design the sets for the Ballets Russes' Apollo Musagète to music by Stravinsky, an opera that was given in June 1928 at the Théâtre Sarah-Bernhardt with great acclaim. For the first performances, the costumes will be by Bauchant, later, they will be signed Coco Chanel." Alain Troadec, André Bauchant, Acatos, Lausanne: 1998, p. 181.
