- Artist
- André Minaux 1923–1986
- Original title
- Fauteuil dans un intérieur
- Medium
- Oil paint on canvas
- Dimensions
- Support: 1619 × 968 mm
- Collection
- Tate
- Acquisition
- Purchased 1953
- Reference
- N06168
Catalogue entry
André Minaux born 1923
N06168 Fauteuil dans un Intérieur
(Arm-Chair in an Interior) 1951
Inscribed 'André Minaux' b.r. and 'André Minaux 1951' on back of canvas
Oil on canvas, 63 3/4 x 38 1/8 (162 x 97)
Purchased from the artist through the Adams Gallery (Knapping Fund) 1953
Exh:
André Minaux, Galerie Bernier, Paris, May 1951 (works not listed) as 'Fauteuil dans un Intérieur'; André Minaux, Adams Gallery, London, April-May 1953 (20) as 'La Chaise'; 4 French Realists, Tate Gallery, August-September 1955 (6)
Repr:
Illustrated London News, CCXXIII, 1953, p.662
This picture, painted in Paris, has sometimes been known as 'The Chair' but was originally exhibited under the more explicit title used here. The artist wrote (letter of 24 July 1953) that it represents a corner of his studio-apartment. 'I like very much to work at home trying to compose with a chair, a table or something else, a pictorial whole'. What seems to be the same chair appears in two lithographs of 1950 and 1951 (Charles Sorlier, Minaux Lithographe 1948-1973, Monte-Carlo 1974, Nos.32 and 35, repr.). The earlier of these shows a very similar arrangement of objects, but with the chair turned to the right instead of the left.
Published in:
Ronald Alley, Catalogue of the Tate Gallery's Collection of Modern Art other than Works by British Artists, Tate Gallery and Sotheby Parke-Bernet, London 1981, p.521, reproduced p.521
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