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Pasquale Iannetti Art Galleries Show Maximilien Luce

Written by Lonnie Farrish Wednesday, 09 March 2011 23:48

artwork: Maximilien Luce - Bateaux et Personnes sur la Plage, 1929

San Francisco, CA- Pasquale Iannetti Art Galleries is pleased to announce our upcoming exhibition, “The Calm of Nature and Gentleness of Things: Paintings by Maximilien Luce (French, 1858-1941)” Maximilien Luce was born in 1858 to a working-class Parisian family. Despite his modest beginnings, Luce went on to become one of the founders of the Neo-Impressionist movement along with Camille Pissarro, Georges Seurat and Paul Signac. The Neo-Impressionists sought to improve upon the Impressionist style with a scientific method of painting called Pointillism.

artwork: Péniches sur la Seine

Around 1900 however, Luce moved away from the pointillist technique of painting small dots of pure color, in favor of more expressive and spontaneous strokes. Not only did the artist distinguish himself from his colleagues with an instinctual, less rigid technique but also by his choice of subject matter. Luce painted social realist scenes of workers and fishermen, peaceful scenes of leisure and picturesque landscapes and seascapes.

This collection of oil paintings illustrates Maximilien Luce’s mastery of light and color to capture “the calm of nature and gentleness of things” in the late 19th and early 20th century French countryside. Luce’s works are featured in permanent collections of many internationally renowned museums including the Musée D’Orsay in Paris, the Metropolitan Museum in New York, the National Gallery of Art in Washington D.C., and the Legion of Honor in San Francisco. The exhibition runs February 22 to March 24, 2007, Margaret Aiken, curator.

A preview of this exhibition is available online at: www.pasqualeart.com/luce ; and at Pasquale Iannetti Art Galleries at : www.pasqualeart.com/

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