Jean Dupas

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Auction House:
Christie's / Feb 7, 2008
Estimate:€1,715.97 - €2,402.36
Price:€3,248.75

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Jean Dupas - The Birth Of Aphrodit

Original 1934

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Auction: Sotheby's - Dec 17, 2009- New York

Lot number: 270
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LOT 270 PROPERTY FROM AN IMPORTANT MARITIME COLLECTION JEAN DUPAS TEN PANELS FROM "THE BIRTH OF APHRODITE" MURAL FROM THE GRAND SALON OF THE S.S. NORMANDIE 200,000—300,000 USD measurements each panel: 49 3/8 x 31 1/2 x 3/8 in. (125.4 x 80 x 1 cm) Description ca. 1934 verre églomisé with six bronze corner brackets executed by Jacques Charles Champignuelle John Maxtone-Graham, Normandie: France's Legendary Art Deco Ocean Liner, New York, 2007, p. 206 (for a period photograph showing the present lot in situ in the Grand Salon) EXHIBITED The Normandie: Floating Art Deco Palace, Bass Museum of Art, Miami, FL, January 15-March 28, 1993 LITERATURE AND REFERENCES Bruno Foucart, et al., Normandie: Queen of the Seas, New York, 1985, p. 72 (for a cartoon of "The Birth of Aphrodite" mural) CATALOGUE NOTE Normandie's Dupas panels have long been revered as the holy grail for Art Deco and ocean liner collectors alike. Jean Dupas, son of a Bordeaux sea captain, was asked by the French Line for a composition extolling the delights of Normandy. Instead, the artist created A History of Navigation , encompassing triremes, dhows, men-o-war and paddle steamers; its lower margins incorporated mythological vignettes conjoined with roiling sea monsters. A challenging site, Normandie's Grand Salon was cruciform-shaped, broken up by five tall windows on each side. It could also be allied with the adjoining Smoking Room by sliding doors. As a result, Dupas was architecturally obliged to break up his oeuvre into four separate, right-angled segments, which he conceived into a series of four thematic murals celebrating "The Birth of Aphrodite," "The Chariot of Poseidon," "The Chariot of Thetis," and the "Rape of Europa." The four murals offered a continuous glittering scene that blended Classical mythology with a secondary theme of maritime history. Rather than painting canvas, Dupas chose to apply paint to the reverse of glass. An astonishing 32-feet high, his vast murale églomisé derived its name from the eighteenth-century ébéniste Jean-Baptiste Glomy who had perfected the technique for decorating picture frames. The process is time-consuming and demanding: highlights, traditionally final adornments, had to precede the layering in of back painting. Dupas was invaluably assisted by églomisé specialist Charles Champigneulle who enriched the artist's outlines with layers of black, gold and platinum washes. The finished work was heroic in scale and gloriously luminescent. Each mural was essentially a mosaic, assembled from dozens of glass panels, anchored by bronze brackets at their corners. That composite form was, in a sense, the mural's salvation, in that the completed work could not only be removed piecemeal from Normandie before her fatal February 1942 fire but could also be dispersed in small, separate consignments. Whereas some collectors content themselves with single, isolated panels, the ten in the present lot enjoy the irreplaceable advantage of pictorial contiguity. Originating from the mural's topmost level, masts, rigging, bellying sails and fluttering pennants of a seventeenth-century warship are juxtaposed against a lowering Breton sky. The largest collection of Dupas panels extant was donated to New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art, preserving for posterity an entire corner of Normandie's Grand Salon. Recently, museum preservationists had to reinvigorate the eroding adhesion of paint to glass; new fixatives were devised and applied that would not obscure the Dupas/Champigneulle mise-en-scêne . The ten panels offered here remain in prime condition. -John Maxtone-Graham, New York maritime historian and author of Normandie: France's Legendary Art Deco Ocean Liner

Jean Dupas - La Femme À L

Original 1921

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Auction: Christie's - Dec 8, 2009- New York

Lot number: 205
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JEAN DUPAS (1882-1964) 'La Femme à L'Ara', 1921 oil on paper collage laid down on canvas 43½ x 23 in. (110.5 x 58.5 cm.) signed Jean Dupas 1921 and with gallery exhibition label marked L. Helvig Gendre, Suc r and another label marked Esquisse Du Grand Panneau De La Decoration de L'Escalier De l'Hotel De M.F.A. Bordeaux Jean-Dupas 19 Boulevard Port Royal 13 Paris Provenance Henri Frugès, Bordeaux. Micheline Bardin Levin. Jean Dupas was born in Bordeaux in 1892 and during his lifetime was associated with other well known artists of the Bordeaux school, such as Robert Eugene Pougheon, René Buthaud, Jean Gabriel Domergue, Raphael Delorme, and Alfred Janniot. In 1910, he was awarded the prestigious Prix de Rome, and spent two years studying in Italy. He returned to Paris following the World War. In 1922, he won a gold medal at the Salon des Artistes Français with 'Les Pigeons Blancs', a painting begun during his stay in Rome, and finished upon his return to Paris. It was this painting that launched Dupas career as a successful painter and established his reputation. Dupas was approached by the Bordeaux industrialist Henri Frugès (1879-1974), whom he had already met during the war with his friend René Buthaud. Frugès was in the process of renovating his townhouse, Hôtel Daverne, which he acquired in 1912 and named 'Palais Idéal'. Supervised by the architect Pierre Ferret, a well-known Bourdelais figure, Frugès' wish was to create a firmly modernist interior, and he called on well-known local and Parisian artists to implement his vision. Included in the project were the Maison Daum, Jean Dunand, Edgar Brandt, René Buthaud and Jean Dupas. The here offered painting, titled 'La femme à l'ara', is a preparatory painting for a mural along the central staircase of the townhouse. The Jean Dupas archive includes a less elaborate drawing of the first sketch of this painting which is inscribed by the hand of the artist 'Etude pour Mr. Frugès'. 'La femme à l'ara' bears a paper label on the reverse which is inscribed by the hand of the artist 'Esquisse du grand panneau de la décoration de l'escalier de l'hôtel de M.F. A Bordeaux'. The central staircase in the townhouse where the mural was to be located was decorated with a grand wrought-iron banister by Edgar Brandt. The staircase originally accommodated an ensemble of neo-gothic wall paneling where presumably the mural by Dupas would have been integrated. However, after many renovations of the building, none of the remaining elements indicate whether the project was ever finished. The composition of the present painting resembles 'Les Pigeons Blancs', which has never been located again. The colors used by Dupas for 'La femme à l'ara' are strikingly vivid and the figures and animals are stylized in a particularly contemporary taste and lend the picture an air of modernity. In the 1950s, the painting was given as a present to the ballerina Micheline Bardin Levin by her mentor Gabriel Voisin for her first appearance in a starring role at the Théâtre National de L'Opéra de Paris. Dupas later participated in the 1925 Exposition Internationale des Arts Décoratifs et Industriels Modernes with 'Les Perruches' in the Hôtel d'un Collectionneur, the pavilion outfitted by Emile-Jacques Ruhlmann. This painting, the focal point of the room, was to become one of his most famous achievements and the embodiment of Art Deco movement. It was in 1934 that Dupas created a monumental mural of verre eglomisé panels for the Grand Salon of the ocean liner SS Normandie. Portions of this mural can be seen today in the Metropolitan Museum of Art. We would like to thank Romain Lefevre for his kind assistance in the cataloguing of this lot. The painting will be included in the catalogue raisonée of Jean Dupas' work currently in preparation by Mr. Lefevre. We would also like to thank Prof. Robert Coustet for his kind assistance in the cataloguing of this lot.

Jean Dupas - La Paix

Original 1910

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Auction: Sotheby's - Nov 12, 2008- London

Lot number: 234
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LA PAIX MEASUREMENTS 89 by 116cm., 35 by 45¾in. DESCRIPTION signed and dated JEAN DUPAS 1910 lower right oil on canvas PROVENANCE Jacques Delbos, Paris EXHIBITED Paris, Salon, 1910 LITERATURE AND REFERENCES E. Bénézit, Dictionnaire critique et documentaire des Peintres,Sculpteurs, Dessinateurs et Graveurs, France, 1976, p. 29,mentioned CATALOGUE NOTE Painted in 1910, the present work was executed the year Dupasreceived a medal at the Paris Salon and won the prestigious Prix deRome. La Paix is an important Symbolist work of an artist who isnow primarily known for his Art Nouveau and Art Deco frescos andpaintings, posters and designs.Born in Bordeaux, Dupas was a pupil of Carolus-Duran and AlbertBesnard. He exhibited at the Salon de la Société des ArtistesFrançais where he received several awards, including a gold medalin 1922. In 1925 Dupas received international recognition when hewas asked by Emile-Jacques Ruhlmann to decorate his pavilion at theExposition Internationale des Arts Décoratifs et Industriels inParis. He was awarded the Légion d'Honneur in 1926.

Jean Dupas - Xv Salon

Original 1924

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Auction: Christie's - Feb 7, 2008- New York

Lot number: 134
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XV Salon lithograph in colors, 1924, on smooth wove paper, with printedsignature and date, with margins, minor surface soiling, severalnicks at the upper right margin edge, pale time staining, otherwisein good condition, laid down to canvas L. 18½ x 14 in. (470 x 355 mm.) S. 23½ x 15¾ in. (597 x 399 mm.)

Jean Dupas - Xv Salon

Original 1924

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Auction: Christie's - May 1, 2007- New York

Lot number: 199
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JEAN-THEODORE DUPAS (1882-1964)
XV Salon
Add. Notes: lithograph in colors, 1924, on smooth wove paper, printed signature and date, with margins, minor surface soiling, several nicks at the upper right margin edge, pale time staining, otherwise in good condition, laid down to canvas L. 18½ x 14 in. (470 x 355 mm.) S. 23½ x 15¾ in. (597 x 399 mm.)
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