Frederic Samuel Cordey
Frédéric Samuel Cordey’s still life is vibrant with color and light.
Oil on canvas
Signed lower right
dimensions: 65 x 54 cm
With frame: 77.5 x 66.5 cm
Price: 2800 euros
” Color is par excellence the part of art that possesses a magical gift. Whereas subject, form and line are primarily addressed to the mind, color has no meaning for the intellect, but has all the power over the senses. “. Eugène Delacroix.
Frédéric Samuel Cordey, an Impressionist painter
Samuel Cordey uses a light, glazed brushstroke, superimposing diluted touches to create masses of color that capture the light.
Impressionist works focus on light and color
A still life with a colorful, contrasting palette.
With this bouquet of flowers, Frédéric, Samuel Cordey asserts his talent as a colorist. He brings out the vibrancy of the colors, combining both warm and cool hues in beautiful harmony.
He uses the elements of the decor – the curtain in the background, the vase, the tablecloth on the table – to work his materials and colors in harmonious disorder.
Biography
Frédéric Samuel Cordey evolves with the Impressionists, he presents four paintings with the group for the fourth Impressionist exhibition in 1877.
Pupil of Isodor Pils and Gustave Boulanger at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris, he was part of the group (Monet, Renoir, Pissarro, Sisley) who rebelled against academic teaching to follow the path of Impressionism. .
The artist took part in the Salon d’Automne in 1903. He rarely exhibits and art critics are rave about him. A retrospective exhibition took place at the Galerie Choiseul in Paris in 1913. His wealth allows him to work according to his own aspirations without depending on criticism and help from merchants.
Appreciated by Gustave Caillebotte and particularly linked to Auguste Renoir, he is featured in several paintings by the artist, including the “Ball of the Moulin de la Galette”. Renoir also represented him in La Conversation, alongside the model, Marguerite Legrand, known as “Margot”, a painting that can be found in the National Museum in Stockholm.
Attentive landscape painter, he likes to depict the surrounding nature; If the Auxerre countryside is one of the painter’s favorite places, he stays not far from Camille Pissarro in Neuville-sur-Oise as well as in Eragny-sur-Oise.
Bibliography
• Article by Adolphe Thalasso, “Exposition F.-S. Cordey”, in Art and artists, monthly review of ancient and modern art, Oct. 1913-3 Feb. 1914, p. 237
• André Roussard, Dictionary of painters in Montmartre in the 19th and 20th centuries
• Cat. of exp. Christophe Duvivier, Painters and the Oise, the painter-engravers of the Oise Valley, [exhibition “Painters and the Oise, the painter-engravers of the Oise Valley”, Pontoise, Musée Tavet- Delacour, 26 Feb. to Sept. 23, 2007], Pontoise ed. from the museum, 2007
• Sophie Monneret, Impressionism and its time, Paris, Robert Laffont, 1987
Museums
– Madame Cordey making tapestry, 1879, Paris, Musée d’Orsay.
– Peach platter, 1906, Nevers, Nièvre prefecture.
Source
https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frédéric_Samuel_Cordey
