Jacques Cancaret
“Intimacy unveiled” 1930s
Jacques Cancaret delivers an intimate, feminine scene. A softly colored work treated with great delicacy.
Oil on cardboard
Signed lower right
Dimensions: 46 x 33 cm
With frame: 61.50 x 48.50 cm
Price: 6500 euros
Jacques Cancaret, painter of the intimate
This intimate scene puts us, despite ourselves, in the position of voyeur. It’s through the open window and the arabesques of the wrought-iron balustrade, certainly on a summer’s evening, that we enter the intimacy of an interior.
Two elegantly dressed women, seated in armchairs, converse. Their evening wear tells us that a reception or outing is coming up.
A delicate painting with a soft palette
We can see the details of the interior decoration: wooden armchairs, plants and a painting on the wall.
The colors are soft, with accents of almond green and pinks.
Biography
Born in Clessy in Saône-et-Loire, Jacques Cancaret was a pupil of William Bouguereau, Gabriel Ferrier and Jean Laronze.
He exhibited at the Salon des Artistes Français, where he won several awards.
He painted canvases, nudes, dancers and interior scenes with female characters, his favorite subjects.
Bibliography
– René Édouard-Joseph, Dictionnaire biographique des artistes contemporains, tome 1, A-E, Art & Édition, 1930, p. 233
– Bénézit, 1955
Museums
Paris, Musée d’Orsay – “Lassitude” 1905
Ajaccio, Palais FESCH , Musée des Beaux-Arts – “Le soir” (“Evening”)
Source
https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacques_Cancaret
https://www.bridgemanimages.com/fr/explore/artist/Cancaret-Jacques-fl.1904-32/gallery
https://www.musee-orsay.fr/fr/oeuvres/lassitude-150089
https://www.musee-fesch.com/category/peintures-du-xxeme-siecle/page/3
