Project Description

Oil on cardboard framed

Dimensions : 26.7 cm x 34.7 cm

Signed lower left : S.Depincé

Thatched cottage of Héléna village of Kerluron Le Pouldu- Suzanne Depincé

Suzanne Depincé (née Armelin) is the wife of a senior colonial official, assigned between Indochina 1902 and 1906. It is one of the first artists to present Tonkin in the early twentieth. After returning to France, she is staying again in the Far East shortly before the First World War. She actively participates in the Colonial Exhibition 1931, by making some paintings on the theme of Annam's ethnic minorities, some of which are still present at the Musée du Quai Branly. Suzanne Depincé (XIX / XX).‌

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She is quoted by Nadine André-Pallois “Indochina : a place of cultural exchange ?” – French and Indochinese painters (late 19th century – Twentieth century) published by the Presses of & rsquo; d & rsquo French School; Far East.

“The landscape making the house of Héléna its main subject is a true digest of the Pouldu of the time”

An isolated thatched cottage

at the bottom of a sandy cove, a skeleton barrier closing the courtil, a nearby stream feeding the washhouse, drinking trough and ponds, dry stone walls that line the paths, pastures and cultivated land, the high dunes, the pine groves and the moor.

Front or side view

from a more or less distant point of view, Héléna's house is immediately identifiable. The north-east facing facade is preferred by artists. Daylight only enters through the front door and a small window just above, the stacker, which nicely indent the thatched roof.
Near the entrance, the roof drops to cover an annex attached to the wall. This "deport" was generally used as an outhouse, shelters for livestock and chicken coop. On the opposite facade, sunnier, we can guess in rare works a second stacker door. The house has uncovered gables. Each gable bearing a chimney stump.

Kerluron

long time, Kerluron was a village made up of a single dwelling, Helena's house. But there was nearby, on the rocky point which overlooks Bellangenêt beach to the west, another construction, the customs guard…”

 

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