Lucien Neuquelman (1909-1988)

Lucien NEUQUELMAN (1909-1988)

Oil on canvas in excellent condition signed lower right

 

Dimensions unframed: H 17.5 in. x W 14.3 in. ; H 44.4 cm x W 36.3 cm

Dimensions framed: H 24.0 in. x W 20.9 in. ; H 61.0 cm x W 53.0 cm

 

 

 

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Our opinion

 

« Le petit port » transports us for a relaxing walk on the calming piers of a small coastal town in the south of France. This painting is incredibly luminous and will immediately bring the sun, and warm Mediterranean colours into your home. It is rare to come across a pointillist composition of this quality outside the masters of this movement such as Seurat and Signac.

 

About the painter

 

Lucien Neuquelman studied at l’Ecole des Beaux Arts de Toulon. A student at the Académie de la Grande-Chaumière in Montparnasse in Paris, Lucien became the pupil of Othon Friez, the painting master who along with Matisse, Marquet and Manguin launched the fauvism movement after the ground breaking “cage aux fauves” exhibition of 1905. The luminosity of Lucien’s paintings is compounded by the pointillist technique that he cherished so much.

 

About pointillism

 

This movement initiated by Seurat in the 1880s was grounded in scientific and optical theories. Whilst the impressionists were mixing colours on their palette before applying it on the canvas, pointillists were applying directly pure colours in dots and let the eye of observers recompose a more striking picture. After the death of Seurat, the technique continued to evolve with Signac with an increasingly colourful palette which deeply influenced the fauvists. Lucien Neuquelman became a successful pointillist and is referenced as such in the Benezit art dictionary.

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