- Lot 133

Julien Gustave GAGLIARDINI (1846-1927) Procession in front of the Salute in Venice Oil on canvas. Signed lower right. Small chips and missing, cracks. 190 x 258 cm Provenance: Jacques Soubies collection, then by descent Jacques Soubies (1880-1940) was the son of the lawyer and music critic Emile Jean Albert Soubies, author of numerous books on music at the end of the 19th century. This doctor, a specialist in recovery after extreme exertion, collected modern works from an early age; he was one of the first to support Chaïm Soutine in the mid-1920s. His first sale, on 14 June 1928, included a number of very important works ranging from Braque to Van Dongen, including Matisse (twenty-three oils), Modigliani (Jeune fille à la cravate, which later passed into the Georges Renan collection), Picasso and Toulouse-Lautrec. Although born in Alsace, Gagliardini lived in Saint-Etienne where his father was a decorator, he was a pupil of Soulary, a history painter from Lyon. He abandoned historical subjects in favour of landscapes, to which he owed his fame, devoting most of his production to them from the 1880s. He took classes from Léon Cogniet at the École des Beaux-Arts, who directed him towards figure painting, which he exhibited from 1869. Gagliardini benefited from several state purchases (Coup de midi, Provence, 1882, Tunis, Palais de la Conférence; Plein midi, Auvergne, 1891, Montpellier, Musée Fabre, Venise, 1913, Saint-Etienne, Musée des Arts et Industries; L'été sur la grande place, Aix-en-Provence, Musée Granet, ) and obtained numerous distinctions between 1883 and 1900: honorable mention 1883, third class medals 1884, second class 1886, silver medal 1889 (Universal Exhibition). Knight of the Legion of Honour, 1893: gold medal (Universal Exhibition). Member of the French Artists from 1893. Thiébault-Sisson in the preface of the retrospective exhibition Gustave Gagliadini, at the Georges Petit gallery in 1928, wrote "He will use almost only vegetable colors (yellow ochre, red ochre), pure white, he will not mix on his palette the tones, but he will not forbid himself from dabbing here and there a red lacquer or from applying a glaze in the lights or shadows, - and this will be his last period, a period where his bias will sometimes lead him, in the large canvases intended for the Salon, to dazzling effects of a brutality unknown before him". Lot appraised and described by the Cabinet d'expertises Perazzone - Brun 14, rue Favart 75002 Paris T. 01 42 60 45 45