Portrait, 1984
63.8 cms (25.12 ins)
Signed 'P. Garel' and dated 84 lower left, titled "Portrait 1984" to gallery label verso
made in 1984
Lot offered for sale by Waddington's, Toronto at the auction event "International Art" held on Thu, Sep 24, 2020.
Lot 580
Lot 580
Estimate: CAD $12,000 - $18,000
Sale price withheld by the Auction house
Sale price withheld by the Auction house
Lot description - from the online catalogue*
Provenance:
Galerie Albert Loeb, Paris gallery label verso;
Collection of Paul Duval, Toronto
Literature:
See Sarah Thomson's review of this lot in "Publisher's Journal, The Women's Post", January 5, 2007 'Earth, Blood, and the space in between', this lot, illustrated in colour, with a photographic, colour detail of the sitter's face, p. 2
Notes:
Philippe Garel is one of the finest post-war French painters currently working, producing large canvases with elaborately textured backdrops and lushly realized figures. This work was previously called "Mother Earth" when it was hanging on the south wall of Toronto artist and critic Paul Duval's studio. It was there that it was first seen by journalist Sarah Thomson, who was so struck by the piece that she dreamt of using a ladder to peek through the studio windows to see her again. Thomson described it, painted in clay reds and earth tones, as "so warm it seemed to heat the room"
Garel has been exhibited in Paris, Madrid, Munich, New York, Brussels, Bologna, Milan, Rome, Turin, Geneva, and Amsterdam. The world famous Italian fashion designer, Valentino, proudly displays his large Philippe Garel, "Portrait à la robe noire", 1984, (exhibited at the Galerie Albert Loeb's "Philippe Garel", show held September 20 - October 20, 1984 in Paris, Cat. No. 25), in his office, where it is featured as a backdrop to a colour photograph in a 2009 article in Vanity Fair.
Garel taught for 25 years in the École régionale des Beaux-arts de Rouen before being elected into the Académie des beaux-arts in 2015.
Galerie Albert Loeb, Paris gallery label verso;
Collection of Paul Duval, Toronto
Literature:
See Sarah Thomson's review of this lot in "Publisher's Journal, The Women's Post", January 5, 2007 'Earth, Blood, and the space in between', this lot, illustrated in colour, with a photographic, colour detail of the sitter's face, p. 2
Notes:
Philippe Garel is one of the finest post-war French painters currently working, producing large canvases with elaborately textured backdrops and lushly realized figures. This work was previously called "Mother Earth" when it was hanging on the south wall of Toronto artist and critic Paul Duval's studio. It was there that it was first seen by journalist Sarah Thomson, who was so struck by the piece that she dreamt of using a ladder to peek through the studio windows to see her again. Thomson described it, painted in clay reds and earth tones, as "so warm it seemed to heat the room"
Garel has been exhibited in Paris, Madrid, Munich, New York, Brussels, Bologna, Milan, Rome, Turin, Geneva, and Amsterdam. The world famous Italian fashion designer, Valentino, proudly displays his large Philippe Garel, "Portrait à la robe noire", 1984, (exhibited at the Galerie Albert Loeb's "Philippe Garel", show held September 20 - October 20, 1984 in Paris, Cat. No. 25), in his office, where it is featured as a backdrop to a colour photograph in a 2009 article in Vanity Fair.
Garel taught for 25 years in the École régionale des Beaux-arts de Rouen before being elected into the Académie des beaux-arts in 2015.
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(*) Text and/or Image might be subject matter of Copyright. Check with Waddington's auction house for permission to use.
(*) Text and/or Image might be subject matter of Copyright. Check with Waddington's auction house for permission to use.