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S.J. Peploe | The Harbour, Cassis, 1913
S.J. Peploe
The Harbour, Cassis, 1913
oil on canvas
31.5 x 40 cm
Cassis Harbour is likely to have been exhibited in Peploe's 1914 exhibition at The Baillie Gallery in London. It is framed in its original Bourlet frame, but was retained subsequently in the family from whom it has descended to the present owner. The painting is thoroughly modernist, a complex abstract composition using the diagonals of masts, the curves of the harbour architecture and uprights of the buildings beyond. He has eliminated the horizon so that his scene, wholly real and directly observed, allows both real and abstract interpretations to coexist. The palette, like many of his Cassis panels, uses the range of umber and orange, a central note of brilliant orange drawing the eye. The emphasis on structure sets the direction for his studio work of the proceeding years as Peploe seeks to analyse his subject in an intellectual process which derives from Cézanne and Cubism while colour is pushed for resolution between belle peinture and expressionism.
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