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MAXIMILIEN LUCE
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Etchings
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Printer in his workshop, c.1895
Etching printed in brown ink on wove paper
© Detroit Institute of Fine Arts.
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Maximilien Luce,
L’Incendiaire, 1896.
Lithographie, 56,7 x 47 cm.
Private Collection © ADAGP, Paris, 2010
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POINTILLISM
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Pointillism
In 1882, Georges Seurat developed a technique that revolved towards a new approach to colours. Influenced by the scientific theories of O-N Rood in New York, the artist would strictly use a divisionist technique consisting of applying colours in small coloured dots.
In 1884, the Société of the Artiste Indépendants was founded and their first collective exhibition was organized in the Pavillion of Paris, on the Avenue Champs Elysées. The founder of the Société was the artist Paul Signac.
In 1887, Luce joined the Société des Indépendants and would exhibit six works at the annual exhibition.
His participation in the exhibition would lead to his meeting with Camille Pissarro with whom he shared social ideas, and the artist would introduce Luce to the Neo-Impressionist painters Georges Seurat, Paul Signac, and Henri-Edmond Cross. They had a profound impact on Luce's artistic practice in the early 1890s.
Luce experimented with the divided touch from 1887 to 1897 which had a profound impact on his works and painted under Signac's influence some of his well-known compositions like La Seine à Herblay and a series of paintings depicting Paris scenes.
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Maximilien Luce (1858-1941)
La Tamise près de Saint-Paul
1893
Oil on canvas
46 x 61 cm
Signed and dated lower right.
Sold by the Gallery
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Maximilien Luce (1858-1941)
Montmartre rue des Saules, 1894
Oil on canvas
27.1 x 39.1 cm
10 5/8 x 15 3/8 inches
Signed lower left Luce and dedicated lower right Luce 94, à l'ami Taillardat
Sold by the gallery
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The painter of the social life
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Maximilien Luce
Camaret, pêcheurs sur le quai, 1893-1895Oil on board
26 x 40 cm
10 1/4 x 15 3/4 inchesSold -
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Maximilien Luce (1858-1941)
Paysans sur un marché
c.1912
Oil on canvas mounted on board
21.9 x 32.8 cm
8 5/8 x 12 7/8 inches
Signed lower right Luce
Sold by the gallery
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Maximilien Luce (1858-1941)
Pécheurs sur la Seine à Herblay
1890
Oil on paper laid down on board
32.7 x 43.5 cm
12 7/8 x 17 1/8 inches
Signed, dated, located lower right Luce Herblay '90
Sold by the gallery
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Figures
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Throughout his career, Portraiture became an essential aspect of Luce’s practice. His ability and his sensibility to render details, and in handling compositions was evident in works such as the portrait of the art critic Félix Fénéon, and the paintings of his friends and family.
Luce, a humanist painter, was highly estimated by his peers who appreciated his uprightness, and genuine character. -
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Les Hommes du jour
Maximilien Luce
Drawing by A.Delannoy
March 1909
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Illustration for Coins de Paris
Maximilien Luce
1941
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About the Artist
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Maximilien Luce
1858 - 1941
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