Marie Mela MUTER (1876-1967)

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Marie Mela MUTER (1876-1967)
Marie Mela MUTER (1876-1967) The Philippe le Bel tower in Villeneuve-lès-Avignon. Oil on panel. Signed lower left. 61 x 49,6 cm. "A 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 School of 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 shows the Fort Saint-André overlooking Villeneuve-lès-Avignon and the Tour Philippe le Bel. The Rhone River occupies more than half of the canvas and thus becomes the main subject of this landscape of Provence. 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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