Félix ZIEM (1821-1911)

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Félix ZIEM (1821-1911)
Sunrise on the Grand Canal, Venice Oil on mahogany panel Signed lower right and titled on the back of the panel on a label On the back of the panel, stamp of the dealer E.Schwartz (active between 1897 and 1906 *) 71 x 92 cm In its important period frame in carved, stuccoed and gilded wood. Provenance : Collection of M. Eugène Camille Lambert (1871-1948), bought on October 18, 1917 (label on the back indicating the title and provenance and red wax stamp of the collector and dealer). At the end of his life, Ziem collaborated with his pupils, notably Eugène-Camille Lambert (1871-1948), his friend and accomplice. Lambert helped Ziem's widow with the inventory of the artist's works that remained in his studios in Paris and Nice. He wrote the first catalogue of Félix Ziem's work. Eugène Lambert then opened a gallery in Cannes and then in Vichy where he exhibited paintings by his master. A travelling painter, an admirer of Constantinople, Cairo and the great ports of the Mediterranean, it was in Venice that Ziem set up his holiday home, a true place of anchorage and the artist's "ideal homeland" according to Théophile Gauthier. Between 1845 and 1892, Ziem assiduously frequented the city of the Doges. He set up a studio on a Traghetto (a large gondola) in 1847, which allowed him to paint on the spot, to capture the light, the meteorological and atmospheric variations of the Serenissima. Thanks to his watercolour touch and the use of glazes made from natural pigments, Ziem removes the perspective of the lagoon and suggests the still imprecise silhouettes of the males, the boats, the city in the backlight of the emerging sun. The fluidity of the air and light, the dissolution of the contours executed with free and varied strokes announce the technique of the impressionists some ten years later.
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