Paul JOUVE (1878-1973) Arab Rider in the... - Lot 27 - Daguerre

Paul JOUVE (1878-1973) Arab Rider in the Desert, 1908 Oil on panel. Signed lower right. Crack. Panel reinforced on the back. 55 x 45,8 cm "In 1908, Paul Jouve, on his return to Algeria, went alone to visit the Maghreb. First settled in Boghar, he went to the small village of Timbuktu, twenty leagues west of Boghar, where he stopped for a while to set up his easel before continuing his journey in the valley of Bou Saada, "Pearl of the South", more than two hundred kilometers away, where Maxime Noiré stayed very often. His mind was no longer on artistic manifestations[] He was thirty years old, communing with the universe, time no longer existed and these patriarchs he met from past centuries, wrapped in long white coats, similar to their ancestors, living like them in this unchanging desert, impressed him deeply. His style became purer under the effect of this immensity and became more incisive, his drawing more supple and quicker, gathering the form in a few essential strokes to transpose it without environment, if not in rare desert landscapes, suggested more than represented, in which he privileged the presence of the character or the animal, leaving them all their graphic importance, his works thus developed in a new dimension []" Bibliography: Paul Jouve, painter and animal sculptor, 1878-1973, Félix Marcilhac, Editions de l'Amateur, 2005. There are only two other paintings on this type of support, produced during the artist's stay in Algiers, in May 1908 at the Villa Abd-el-Tif, The battleship La Démocratie in the roadstead of Algiers (collection of the Musée des années 30, Boulogne Billancourt) and The mosque and the cemetery of Hamma, Algiers, 1908 (private collection)