Sailboat (Le Voilier)

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FROM THE BARNES FOUNDATION’S CATALOG

A boat with three pink sails floats in from the left, navigating between jagged rocks in the blue river . Above, plumes of violet and emerald rise into a golden sky. In this enigmatic image, Lurçat merged elements of classical landscapes, Cézanne's structuralism, and dream imagery inspired by his own wanderings through the Mediterranean. In 1930 an art critic wrote of Lurçat, "A deep humanitarianism and a studied judgment upon human destiny are implicit in his [recent] paintings," in which "form has a meaning beyond its own essence."

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