Mela MUTER (1876-1967)

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Mela MUTER (1876-1967)
Mela MUTER (1876-1967) The Saint-André fort in Villeneuve-lès-Avignon. Oil on panel. Signed lower right. On the back "Le pont de Chasse sur le Rhône" unsigned. 46 x 55 cm. "Polish painter who arrived in Paris in 1901, Mela Muter exhibited at the Salon des Beaux-Arts the following year. In 1905, she was presented at the Salon d'Automne, alongside artists such as Matisse and Derain who marked the birth of Fauvism. On this occasion, she was noticed by Ambroise Vollard, the famous dealer who revealed the major artists of the avant-garde and whose portrait she painted, following the example of Picasso and Renoir. An emblematic artist of the Ecole de Paris, she frequented the Montparnasse district, which was the scene of the intellectual and artistic ferment of the beginning of the century. Initially influenced by symbolism, she made several trips, notably to Brittany, where she learned from the Pont-Aven school, and then evolved towards a more expressionist touch, reminiscent of the work of Cézanne and Van Gogh. On the eve of the Second World War, threatened for her political opinions and her Jewish origins, she fled the capital and took refuge in Avignon. The two paintings we are presenting can be linked to this period during which she continued to paint feverishly the views offered to her by the city of the Popes. Our work has an interesting feature here because it has two painted sides. The main one, the signed one, represents the Provencal village of Villeneuve-Lès-Avignon overlooked by the Fort Saint-André. On the reverse, two walkers stroll along the banks of the Rhone in front of the old suspension bridge that was bombed in 1944. Through the thickness of the material and the lively gesture of her brush, Mela Muter succeeds in giving her work a real expressive power.
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