Project Description
Oil on masonite
Dimensions : 54 cm x 65 cm
Signed lower right: langlois bellot
workshop stamp on the back
Cap d'Hona port of Banyuls sur mer
Jeanne Langlois - Bellot (1894-1986)
Painter of landscapes and seascapes. She has exhibited at exhibitions “The Union of Women Painters and Sculptors” from 1949 at 1958.
Jeanne Langlois-Bellot, based in Paris, painted the seaside a lot. «These paintings reflect his travels in Italy, and Egypt, au Portugal, in Greece or Holland»,. She exhibited alongside her master Willem Van Hasselt but also of Lotiron, Trash, Delplanque
The state bought the 23 September 1952 one of his works.
Cape d & rsquo; Hona through old postcards.
Sources : Albert CALLIS 'blog
The Marc Vaux fund
The Marc Vaux collection is mainly made up of reproductions of works by nearly 5 000 artists living in Paris 1920 at 1970. It also presents the interest of testifying to the artistic and intellectual proliferation of this period, mainly in the Montparnasse district, through atmospheric photographs., portraits of artists in their studio, architectural views, etc.
This results in the following typology :
The vast majority of glass plates reproduce works (paintings, sculptures, drawings, livres, posters, furniture, etc.) photographed in different contexts : in the artists' studios, in the Parisian galleries of the time, in various Parisian salons and in some museums (Louvre, Jacquemart-Andre, St Denis).
Marc Vaux systematically delimited the work on the plate so as to voluntarily reframe the shots during the print. Some reproductions of works are accompanied by interior views, portraits of artists and people not yet identified.
Biography of Marc Vaux
Marc Vaux was born on 19 February 1895 in Crusai in the Orne and died in Paris on 25 February 1971. Mobilized in the First World War, he has 22 years when he was evacuated from the battlefields of Champagne with a serious injury to his right arm.
Reform, he will receive a lifetime war disabled pension. This carpenter cabinetmaker must however find a new vocation.
He comes into 1915 at the School of Vocational Rehabilitation for Disabled War Disabled and perfected his pre-war passion there : photography.
Paris after the First World War
Back to civilian life, he arrives in Paris and earns a modest living by portraying the merchants of his neighborhood, of craftsmen posing in their workshop and carrying out enlargements of dead relatives at the front.
After the Armistice, he moved to place de la Concorde, photographs passers-by and sells these portraits. At that time, Marc Vaux lives in the Montparnasse district with his wife in 23 maine avenue, not far from the cul-de-sac 21 where Marie Vassilieff and Maria Blanchard live.
Montparnasse
He meets the sculptor Charles Desvergnes (1860-1929) through his color dealer from whom he buys his plates and photographic products. He asks him to photograph his sculptures and his drawings and recommends him to other actors in the artistic life of Montparnasse.. Including Maria Blanchard and Marie Vassilieff, who themselves present it to their circles of artist friends.
From 1920
The artistic milieu of Montparnasse then appears in his work : on the strength of these first experiences, he begins to offer his services to artists, develops its skills in reproductions of works of art and also illustrates the intellectual and festive life of the Montparnasse district of the years 20-30 : portraits of artists, academies, costume ball, cafes etc..
The photographer of painters
Marc Vaux quickly becomes the “photographer of painters”, sculpture photography specialist, paintings and artists in their studio. Indeed, his clients are little known personalities or illustrious masters such as Henri Matisse or Brancusi., and also works for Parisian galleries and photographs the Salon des Indépendants, the fall and may fairs.
Rue de Vaugirard
His workshop on avenue du Maine does not offer the amenities of running water necessary for the development of prints, he renovates in 1927 a former outbuilding of Madame de Maintenon's estate located in 114 bis rue de Vaugirard. So this new, more spacious place will leave him enough room to work, organize a few exhibitions and even rent outbuildings to several artists, including Henri Matisse.
The support center for artists and intellectuals
Contemporary chroniclers of Marc Vaux describe him as a generous and militant Montparnasse personality. In 1943, He rents a room in his name to allow the painter Rabinowitcz known as Benn to hide until the end of the war, then participated in the Liberation of Paris as a resistant (FFI Paris sud C.D.L.R.).
After World War II
Sensitive to the very precarious situation of post-war artists, he founds in 1946 the support center for artists and intellectuals in 89 bld du Montparnasse whose canteen offers every day until 500 affordable meals. As Secretary General of the “Montparnasse Committee”, Marc Vaux becomes a central figure in Montparnasse and invests in reviving this district as a center of art. He organizes exhibitions in the Galerie du Foyer, animates the annual election of the most beautiful model and creates 1948 review “Montparnasse-Crossroads of the Arts” who will however only know ten numbers.
The Montparnasse Museum
It opens in 1951 the Montparnasse Museum, the 10 Arrival Street, in which he exhibits his own paintings, his photographic reproductions and memorabilia collected over the years. In the years 60, Marc Vaux has the project to create a Cultural Center of Montparnasse and an international arts center in place of the former Hotel Rigaud but unfortunately will not have the time to concretize this commitment before his death in 1971.
Sources : Kandinsky library
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