Tigre marchant, 1925
Oil on primed plywood panel, signed lower right.
50 x 101 cm
Provenance :
Paul Jouve Collection
Direct purchase from the artist
Private collection, France.
Exhibitions :
Exhibition Paul Jouve, Galerie Haussmann, Paris, 23 May - 15 June 1925, n°14.
Exhibition Paul Jouve, Musée de la France d'Outre Mer, Paris, 16 April - 8 May 1955, n°55.
Bibliography :
Paul Jouve, Félix Marcilhac, Editions de l'Amateur, Paris, 2005, illustrated on p.107.
Certificate of authenticity established by Mr. Dominique Suisse, rightful owner of the artist.
Paul Jouve, familiar with wild animals, offers us here a characteristic painting of his animal works in the interwar period. With a very tight horizontal framing, the anatomy of the fawn is particularly highlighted, its power accentuated.
This work, done at the beginning of 1925, was exhibited at the Galerie Haussmann in the spring, as part of an exhibition devoted to the artist.
It was then kept in Jouve's studio, who exhibited it in 1955 at the Musée de la France d'Outre-mer before selling it to the father of its current owner.