JEAN DUPAS
SKETCHES OF FOUR FIGURES FOR 'LE VIN', 1922
Black pencil drawing of four figures for the decorative project "Le Vin" for the French Wine Pavilion at the 1925 Exposition des Arts Décoratifs Industriels et Modernes.
Annotated at the bottom right "Le Vin, February 16, 1922".
Annotated at the bottom right "Le Vin, February 16, 1922".
40 x 31 cm.
15 3/4 x 12 1/4 in.
15 3/4 x 12 1/4 in.
Etude au crayon noir de quatre figures pour le décor "Le Vin", projet décoratif pour le pavillon des Vins Français à l'Exposition des Arts Décoratifs Industriels et Modernes de 1925.
Annoté en base à droite "Le Vin, 16 février 1922".
Provenance
Private collection of Mme. V. D., Belgium.Exhibitions
On the occasion of the famous 1925 International Exhibition of Modern Decorative and Industrial Arts, the city of Bordeaux moved into one of the four towers reserved for French wines built by the architect Charles Plumet.The interior decoration of the Pavillon de Bordeaux was commissioned to Pierre Ferret, an architect from Bordeaux who designed the Hôtel Frugès. This ambitious project was intended to be "of a high standard and of great nobility" in his own words.
Four Bordeaux painters, Jean Dupas, François-Maurice Roganeau, Jean Despujols, all three of whom won the Prix de Rome, and Marius de Buzon participated in the decoration of the pavilion by creating monumental allegorical compositions three meters high and eight meters long symbolizing the main economic resources of Bordeaux and Aquitaine.
In the center of the hall of the Bordeaux tower, the Parisian sculptor Alfred Janniot, a close friend of Jean Dupas, created a spectacular polychrome sculpture evoking the vine. The theme of the Landes Forest was given to François-Maurice Roganeau, the Colonies to Marius de Buzon, Agriculture to Jean Despujols and the Vine and Wine to Jean Dupas.
In 1926, the Bordeaux City Council decided to acquire the four paintings to be displayed on the walls of the amphitheater of the Bordeaux Municipal Athenaeum until 1973. After restoration, they were exhibited in the permanent collections of the Aquitaine Museum.
Publications
To see the complete painting:- George Barbier : Jean Dupas, La Renaissance de l'Art Français et des Industries de Luxe, Paris, September 1927, the painting the vine and the wine reproduced pages 430 and 431.
- J. et B. Guerin : Des hommes et des activités autour d'un demi-siècle. Ed B.E.B, 1957.
- Collections particulières. Le goût d'un amateur Bordelais, Edition le Festin, 2009.
- Jacques Sargos : Bordeaux vu par les peintres, L'Horizon chimérique, 2006.
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