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TITLE:
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Madame Dufour in Her Kitchen
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CATEGORY:
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Paintings
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MATERIALS:
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Oil on panel
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MARKINGS:
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Signed in oil at lower right: Monticelli
On verso three exhibition labels:
(1) printed and inscribed: EXPOSITION MONTICELLI / JUILLET-AOUT 1959/No 55 /
GALERIE LUCIEN BLANC/AIX-EN-PROVENCE;
(2) Inscribed in ink: EXPOS. MONTICELLI/TOKYO 1971 / Catal. no .... (damaged);
(3) printed and inscribed: EXPOSITION MONTICELLI / MUSEUM CAN-TINI- 19, RUE G RIGNAN- MARSEILLE / Nora de l'Expediteur: A. Delpiano, 8 rue lean Daumas, tre
de l'ouvrage: Femme devant une table de cuisine/Dimensions: 48 x 36/numero 164 du catalogue. Inscribed on panel: 164; along right side: A. Delpiano Cannes.
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SIZE:
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h: 18.8 x w: 14.5 in / h: 47.8 x w: 36.8 cm
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REGION:
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French
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STYLE:
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Academic
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PRICE*:
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DESCRIPTION:
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Note: Born in Marseille, Monticelli moved to Paris and worked in the studio of Delaroche in 1846-47. He
copied old masters in the Louvre, but his admiration For Delacroix's oil sketches indicates the direction in
which his work would develop. Narcisse Diaz, also influenced by Delacroix, became his friend, and together they painted in the forest of Fontainebleau. During the reign of Napoleon III, when neo-rococo taste
flourished, Monticelli was very successful, painting fêtes galantes, and landscapes, populated with classical
figures, much like Diaz's nymphs in the woods. By the time of the Franco-Prussian war in 1870/71,
Monticelli was so well known that he could retreat to his home town, live on portrait and still life paintings and develop his very idiosyncratic method of painting. His thick impasto and dazzling colors became
famous, although not widely understood during his lifetime, except by fellow artists. Cézannes joined
Monticelli on painting trips in the countryside around Aix. Vincent van Gogh discovered Monticelli's
paintings in a gallery in Paris in 1886. He acquired several works, and so did his brother Theo. Vincent van
Gogh remained deeply impressed by Monticelli's work, writing to his brother: "Sometimes I think I am
continuing his work; the only thing is, that I do not have, as he had, a love affair with color." (Stammegna,
v. 1, p. 30). In his last years, after his mother's death in 1882, Monticelli succumbed to alcohol and died
after several strokes in a nursing home. The scene of the present painting is the kitchen of Mme. Dufour, wife of the horse dealer Alphonse
Dufour. Monticelli would board his dog Fistou (whom he also painted) for years with the Dufours, giving
them numerous paintings in recompense. Mme. Dufour was not very fond of Monticelli, and as soon as
her husband passed away, she sold all her Monticellis to another horse dealer, Marius Delpiano.
Marius Delpiano was one of Monticelli's first collectors. After acquiring the Dufour collection, he
mounted a Monticelli exhibition in Cannes in 1890, and began dealing in art and antiques. He was succeeded by his son Alfred Delpiano, who kept the best works for his private collection, which was eventually dispersed in Nice in 1963-65.
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PROVENANCE:
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Alphonse Dufour (from the artist); Marius Delpiano (1888 from the widow Dufour); Alfred Delpiano;
Sales of the collection Delpiano: Nice, 1963-65.
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LITERATURE:
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André M. Alauzan and Pierre Ripert, Monticelli, sa vie et son oeuyre, Paris 1969, p. 201, fig. 294, ill.
Saveur Stammégna, Catalogue des oeuvres de Monticelli, 2 vol. Vence, 1981-88. vol. 2, p. 54, fig. 584, ill.
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EXHIBITION HISTORY:
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Aix-en-Provence, Galerie Lucien Blanc, Exposition Monticelli, 1959, cat. no. 55.
Marseille, Museum Cantini, Exposition Monticelli, 1936, cat. no. 164, ill.
Tokyo, Exposition Monticelli, 1971.
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