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Limited edition artistic handmade wool rug after Albert Gleizes by Boccara- N.36

Boccara
Offered by: Boccara Gallery

Description
Rug after Albert Gleizes (France, 1881 - 1953)

Design N.36
Handwoven wool rug
Manufactured by Boccara
400 x 400 cm; 157.5 x 157.5 in
8 editions in total

This Boccara rug has been woven from Albert Gleizes’ work:
Octagonal composition, 1924
Gouache ; 21 x 16,5 cm
Signed and dated on the right: Albert Gleizes 24
References: Albert Gleizes Catalogue Raisonné, Somogy éditions d’Art, 1998; p. 361

In rejecting what he perceived as Picasso’s and Braque’s “Impressionism of form” and dissection of the subject, Gleizes embraced a style that attempted to capture the subject in its absolute order and truth. With its broad, overlapping planes of brilliant color, Peinture à Trois Elements embodies the second synthetic phase of Cubism.

During the 1920s Gleizes works are a bridge between figuration and abstraction. With ample opportunity to observe and study his subject, Gleizes worked through these studies to resolve the compositional harmony of the painting, inflecting an otherwise staid genre with a circular rhythm. Gleizes experienced increasing frustration toward the end of the 1910s as the avant-garde embraced Dada, an anarchic enterprise that ran counter to his quest for social values in art. He began to focus increasingly on the compositional harmonies of his subjects in the belief that rhythmic harmonies were more universal and hence superior to subjective responses.

Cubism, with its new geometry, its dynamism and multiple view-point perspective, not only represented a departure from Euclid's model, but it achieved, according to Gleizes and Metzinger, a better representation of the real world: one that was mobile and changing in time. For Gleizes, Cubism represented a "normal evolution of an art that was mobile like life itself."

More Information

Customization Options:	Customers who would like to customise this rug can choose from the following options: - Materials: wool or silk; wool and silk - Dimensions - Colours: upon request
In the Style of:	Albert Gleizes
Period:	New
Materials:	Hand-knotted wool rug
Condition:	Excellent. Excellent
Styles / Movements:	Modern, Contemporary, Bespoke
Incollect Reference #:	297994

Dimensions

W.	157.48 in;	H.	157.48 in;
W.	400 cm;	H.	400 cm;

Message from Seller:

The Boccara Fine Art department presents paintings, photography and special attention is given to sculpture, which is one of the gallery owner’s greatest passions. Following one of the guidelines developed by Didier Marien, not only worldwide famous artists such as Wang Keping, André Lanskoy, Léon Zack, Dominique Pollès, Serge Charchoune, Clement Rosenthal, Anton Smith but also emerging artists like Simone Pheuplin, Émile Gilioli and Laurence Bonnel are represented by the gallery.