Éléphant devant le temple de Madura, 1923
Oil on cardboard signed lower right
65 x 95 cm
History:
In 1921, Jouve was awarded a scholarship by the General Government of Indochina. As such, he made an eleven-month long trip to the Far East between September 1922 and July 1923, and this experience would have a lasting impact on his work. He left Marseille on the liner Porthos on September 8, after a few stops, he disembarked in Ceylon and then continued to Malaysia, Cochinchina, Annam and Angkor, which he joined in October 1922, where he stayed for three months, after which he stayed in Hué, an imperial city, and crossed the Annam again, stopping in the English South Indies, where this work was created, directly on the motif in June 1923, shortly before his return to France after a final visit to Ceylon.
Provenance:
Paul Jouve's collection
Purchased from the artist by the current owner's father
Bibliography:
Félix Marcilhac, Paul Jouve peintre sculpteur animalier, Les éditions de l’Amateur, 2005, illustrated p. 153.
Exhibition history:
Salon des Artistes Français (section de la Société Coloniale des Artistes Français), Grand Palais, Paris, 1924, n°186.
Paul Jouve, Galerie Haussmann, 29 rue de la Boétie, Paris, 23 May - 20 June 1925, n°35.
Paul Jouve, Galerie des Artistes Français, 35 Chaussée d'Ixelles, Brussels, Belgium, 17 March - 28 March 1926, n°24.