Émile-Othon Friesz
Scene in a Parisian Brasserie, ca. 1905/06
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Oil on canvas, 49 x 45,5 cm
Signed lower left: Othon Friesz
Inv.-no. MB-Fri-01
Like the Impressionists, the Fauve Émile-Othon Friesz also painted scenes in Parisian cafés and brasseries. As in the earlier compositions of this genre, the three guests sit isolated at the table, as though they had nothing to do with each other. The choice of discordant colors seems as disconcerting as the apathetic meeting. The chandelier that is reflected in the mirror emphasizes the woman in the center who wears a red hat and provocatively stares out of the picture.
Othon Friesz: Le fauve baroque, 1879–1949, Piscine-Musée d'Art et d'Industrie André Diligent, Roubaix, February 17–May 20, 2007; Musée d'Art Moderne, Céret, June 23–September 30, 2007; Musée Malraux, Le Havre, October 20, 2007–January 27, 2008
Impressionism: The Hasso Plattner Collection, Museum Barberini, Potsdam, from September 5, 2020
Matisse, Derain and Friends: The Paris Avantgarde 1904–1908, Kunstmuseum Basel, September 2, 2023–January 21, 2024
November 7, 1963, Galerie
Koller, Zurich
n.d., Private collection
October 2008, Art trade
Robert Martin and Odile Aittouarès, Émile Othon Friesz: L' œuvre peint, Paris 1995, no. 429, p. 167, ill. p. 167.
Othon Friesz: Le fauve baroque, 1879–1949, exh. cat. Piscine-Musée d'Art et d'Industrie André Diligent, Roubaix 2007, no. 49, p. 143.
Ortrud Westheider, Impressionism: The Hasso Plattner Collection, Museum Barberini, Potsdam 2023, p. 103, 266, ill. p. 104.
Matisse, Derain und ihre Freunde. Die Pariser Avantgarde 1904–1908, exh. cat. Kunstmuseum Basel, 2023, ill. p. 184.
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