Noyelles-sur-Sambre 1892 - 1971 Paris

Prairie en Mai, 1934

Meadow in May

Oil on canvas

46 x 55 cm.; 18 1/8 x 21 5/8 inches

Signed and dated, lower left: Gromaire 1934

Reference:

François Gromaire and Françoise Chibret-Plaussu, Marcel Gromaire, la vie et l’oeuvre,

catalogue raisonné des peintures, La Bibliothèque des Arts, Paris, 1993: no. 409 and reproduced on page 163.

Notes:

Marcel Gromaire reflected a great deal on art. In 1947, he wrote (translated from: Marcel Gromaire, Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, 1980, p. 11):

Human spirit, both in its sensitivity and thought processes, searches for its own sense and measure as well as for its own architectural elements. These allow that spirit to harmonize with the world and transpose sensations emanating from nature into human concepts. The center of this drama is situated at the point of contact between natural feelings and spiritual abstractions. It is through the conjunction of intensely felt passion and [creative] action, which [the artist] with clear understanding dares to take, that beauty is born...

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