Henri Pontoy<\/h2>\n
An Orientalist painting by Henri Pontoy representing a market scene in Essaouira, Morocco, circa 1930. A generous and sculpted touch, warm and bright colors illuminate the scene<\/strong><\/p>\nOil on canvas Signed lower right Dimensions: 33 x 41 cm With frame: 49 x 57 cm<\/h6>\nsold<\/h6>\n<\/div><\/div><\/span><\/h6>\n
Essaouira, historical and romantic city<\/h3>\nHenri Pontoy set down his easel in Essaouira in one of the city’s markets, the arcades are low and the interior courtyard rectangular; one recognizes the architecture of the historic walled city dating from the late 18th century. He uses the arches for an unusual framing.<\/div>\n
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<\/h3>\nA fresh and luminous palette and a sculpted and unctuous material<\/h3>\nHenri Pontoy, as usual, uses warm and bright colors. Pinks, purples, greens and blues brighten the scene.<\/div>\n
He plays with light and shadow and sculpts his creamy material with skill.<\/div>\n
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<\/h4>\nBiography<\/h4>\n<\/div>\n
Henri Pontoy is an orientalist painter born in Reims. He enters the \u00c9cole des Beaux-Arts in Paris, in the studio of Luc-Olivier Merson.
Pontoy attended the Barbizon School illustrated by renowned painters like Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot and Jean-Fran\u00e7ois Millet. Outdoor painting, as conceived by the landscape painters of the Barbizon School, would then condition his approach.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
He exhibited his paintings at the Salon de la Soci\u00e9t\u00e9 nationale des Beaux-Arts, at the Salon d’Automne, at the Salon des Ind\u00e9pendants and at the Salon des artistes orientalistes alg\u00e9riens.<\/div>\n
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In 1926, he received a travel grant from the Colonial Society of French Artists, which allowed him to travel to North Africa, particularly to Tunisia where he became a member of the Tunisian Salon.
That same year, he travels to Morocco, which captivates him. He lived for several years around 1930 in Ouarzazate where he met the painter Jacques Majorelle. He became a professor of arts and letters at the Moulay Idriss high school in Fez for 14 years, while regularly exhibiting at the Derche gallery in Casablanca.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
In 1947, Jacques Majorelle asked Henry Pontoy to accompany him to Guinea. Together, they travel through the heavily forested region of Fouta-Djalon. “Majorelle painted nudes and I painted landscapes.”<\/div>\n
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He was awarded the Cameroon Prize in 1951. He was the 1933 winner of the grand prize of the city of Algiers.<\/div>\n
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Henry Pontoy favors plein air painting in a realistic approach. Her fresh, airy, warmly colored palette in both oils and watercolors has always been a great success.<\/div>\n
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He is one of the last French representatives of orientalism which reached its peak between the two world wars.<\/div>\n
Henry Pontoy lived in Morocco from 1927 to 1965, when he left that country to settle in Aix-en-Provence, where he died in 1968.<\/div>\n
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<\/h4>\nExhibitions<\/h4>\n<\/div>\n
– Oran, January 1925<\/div>\n
– Algiers and Tunis,: 1926<\/div>\n
– Salon d’automne in Algiers, 1926<\/div>\n
– Algiers, 1933, Salon of Algerian Orientalist Artists<\/div>\n
– Algiers, December 1938, Salon of the Artistic Union of North Africa<\/div>\n
– Algiers, January 1947, exhibition of art mirrors<\/div>\n
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Bibliography<\/h4>\n<\/div>\n
– Benezit dictionary<\/div>\n
– Alfred Rousse, 28th exhibition of Algerian Orientalist artists, 1927.<\/div>\n
– St\u00e9phane Richemond, Les Salons des artistes coloniaux, \u00c9ditions de l’Amateur, 2003<\/div>\n
– G\u00e9rald Schurr and Pierre Cabanne, Dictionnaire des petits ma\u00eetres de la peinture, \u00c9ditions de l’Amateur, 2003.<\/div>\n
– \u00c9lisabeth Cazenave, Les artistes de l’Alg\u00e9rie, dictionnaire des peintres, sculpteurs, graveurs 1830-1962, \u00c9ditions Bernard Giovanangeli, 2001.<\/div>\n
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https:\/\/fr.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Henri_Pontoy<\/div>\n
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https:\/\/www.expertisez.com\/magazine\/henri-jean-pontoy<\/div>\n
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