huile sur toile signee et datee le Caire 1900 85 x 114 cm Musee d'Orsay Paris La longue tige droite de la pipe contraste avec le mouvenent sinueux du corps de la femme et du kaftan raye
Painting ID:: 25092
Emile Bernard huile sur toile signee et datee le Caire 1900 85 x 114 cm Musee d'Orsay Paris La longue tige droite de la pipe contraste avec le mouvenent sinueux du corps de la femme et du kaftan raye Fumeuse de haschich (mk32) 1868-1941
French
Emile Bernard Galleries
(b Lille, 28 April 1868; d Paris, 15 April 1941). French painter and writer. He was the son of a cloth merchant. Relations with his parents were never harmonious, and in 1884, against his fathers wishes, he enrolled as a student at the Atelier Cormon in Paris. There he became a close friend of Louis Anquetin and Toulouse-Lautrec. In suburban views of Asnires, where his parents lived, Bernard experimented with Impressionist and then Pointillist colour theory, in direct opposition to his masters academic teaching; an argument with Fernand Cormon led to his expulsion from the studio in 1886. He made a walking tour of Normandy and Brittany that year, drawn to Gothic architecture and the simplicity of the carved Breton calvaries. In Concarneau he struck up a friendship with Claude-Emile Schuffenecker and met Gauguin briefly in Pont-Aven. During the winter Bernard met van Gogh and frequented the shop of the colour merchant Julien-Franois Tanguy, where he gained access to the little-known work of Cezanne.
