Lot 43
Guy Rose(American, 1867-1925)At Annandale 21 1/4 x 24 1/4in
28 April 2015, 18:00 PDT
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Guy Rose (American, 1867-1925)
At Annandale
signed 'Guy Rose' (lower right) and titled (on the reverse)
oil on canvas
21 1/4 x 24 1/4in
overall: 27 x 30in
signed 'Guy Rose' (lower right) and titled (on the reverse)
oil on canvas
21 1/4 x 24 1/4in
overall: 27 x 30in
Footnotes
Provenance
With Stendahl Galleries, Los Angeles, California (label verso).
Private collection, Michigan.
Thence to the present owner.
Originally hailing from San Gabriel, Guy Rose became one of the West Coast's foremost Impressionist painters of the late 19th and early 20th centuries as well as an important figurehead of the California regionalist movement. In 1888, Rose studied in Paris under the tutelage of Benjamin Constant, Jules Lefebvre, and at the Academie Julian with Lucien Doucet. He received honorable mention from the 1898 Paris Salon, the first artist from California to be lauded with such an honor. In the mid-1890s, he returned stateside and taught at the Pratt Institute in New York. During this period Rose illustrated for commercial publications such as "Harper's," "Scribners," and "Century." Unfortunately, he began to suffer from a disabling illness related to lead poisoning and was forced to abandon his art almost entirely around 1897. Marked by the fin de siecle, Rose returned to the French countryside to recuperate, where he and his wife purchased a cottage at Giverny. From 1904 to 1912, Rose became acutely knowledgeable of optical mixing techniques derived from Monet and the other Impressionist artists in the community. Reinvigorated, he returned to painting and focused on applying quintessential Impressionistic French techniques to California landscapes.
Rose worked within Impressionistic aesthetics to dissolve natural forms into ethereal patterns of color and luminescent shapes. At Annandale features a foreground punctuated by saffron yellow flickering brushstrokes that stand for wild flowers nestled in an undulating spring landscape. The artist segments the composition into brilliant patches of green hillside using the tree as a framing device. The hand of the painter is evident in long sporadic brushstrokes articulating the tawny brown dirt trails. Rose completed a number of paintings specifically focusing on the natural setting and organic essence of the region, often painting from, what appears to be, virtually the same vantage point. Will South writes in his 1995 book Guy Rose, American Impressionist, that a comparison could be made in these works to Claude Monet's focus on capturing the same scene in a variety of different lighting conditions. Guy Rose's association with the French master is well documented and one can detect many similarities in style and approach between the two artists.