Andre Lhote

André Lhote is a painter cubist, theorist of art and teacher French, born with Bordeaux the July 5th 1885 and died with Paris the January 25th 1962.

Biographical elements

After his studies with the Art schools of Bordeaux, André Lhote is initially Sculpteur then it launches out in painting. He is attached to the movement cubist in 1912, however he rejects what it of too much abstracted there in this form from painting and it will always seek to preserve a bond with the traditional painting, which it is by the subjects or the rigor of its compositions. He wants to register modernity, not in the rupture, but in the continuity of the tradition.

At the same time theorist and pedagog, in 1921 it bases its school street Odessa, on the heights of Montparnasse, where will study for example William Klein, Tamara de Lempicka, Bertrand Dorny, Marcelle Rivier, Henri Cartier-Bresson or Robert Wehrlin.

In the house which it has with Mirmande in Drome, it also organizes training courses of summer for its pupils. As from 1940 and during all the Occupation, many artists will find there refuge (Marcelle Rivier which will remain there, Alexandre Garbell, Pierre Palué…)

As of its beginnings, Lhote felt very in phase with the watchword of the “decorative whole” of the Art nouveau. It will keep until the end this taste for decoration. Thus it carries out the murals of the medical college of Bordeaux in 1957.

André Lhote is also the author of invaluable treaties of art (theoretical works) or books on art (critical works).

Museums

International museums

Many museums in the world have works of Andre Lhote.

Belgium: Museum of modern art and contemporary of Liege

Canada: Vancouver Art Gallery in Vancouver

France: Museum of modern art of the town of Paris

Hungary: Museum of beautiful arts of Budapest

Spain: Fundación Telefónica in Madrid

Sweden: Waldemarsudde in Stockholm
Northern Ireland: Ulster Museum in Belfast
England: Touch Britain in London
the United States: Museum off Fine Arts of Boston and Museum off Modern Art of San Francisco

French museums

One finds works of Lhote:

with the museum of Valence
to the museum of the fine arts of Bordeaux

With the museum of modern art of the town of Paris, (Center Pompidou) one can see:

the Widow (1910)
Stopover (1912)
Rugby (1917)
the Coffee mill (1917)
Houses in Mirmande (1928)
on July 14th in Avignon (1930)
Woman with her toilet (1942)
the family life (1942)

Written works

André Lhote wrote important theoretical works on modern painting and of the works of criticism of Article

Treaties

Treated landscape (Floury, 1939)
Treated figure (Floury, 1950)
Small routes with the use of the artists (1943)
plastic invariants (Hermann)

Art critics

Corot, (Stock, 1923)
new French painters (Gallimard, 1926)
Painting initially (Denoël, 1942)
Of the pallet to the inkstand (Corrêa, 1946) - anthology of writings of artists
masterpieces of Egyptian painting (Hatchet, 1954)
released painting (Grasset, 1956)
the New French Review

Others

André Lhote for a long time assumed the art critic in the Nouvelle French review (NRF)
Contribution as an illustrator: “The Rhyme off the Ancyent Marinere, in seven shares”, work of Samuel Taylor Coleridge (Emile-Paul Brothers, Paris, 1920) - illustrations by Andre Lhote.

The specimens on first and second large papers are accompanied by two continuations of engravings (one voluntarily omits true “first” large paper, on “Arch-millet handmade paper”, published with only one specimen, in the name of the subscriber, Alexandre Gaspard-Michel, who was at the origin of this work of edition). The others were published with 729 specimens, on “Dutch " v.G.z" handmade ugly paper” (Holland), without continuation of engravings.

Topicality

The museum of the fine arts of Bordeaux organizes a great exposure on André Lhote: languages of modernity , from April 6th to September 3rd, 2007.

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