The world of Adolphe MonticelliFlowers, princesses and figures emerge from an almost mineral material: Monticelli does not fill the shapes with color, he lets color produce the world.
1824 -1886Life of Adolphe Monticelli
1879 - 1883Period of his most admired still lifes
MarseillesEssential focus of his imagination
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Marseille -Paris, 1824 -1886 · Thick color and theater of light
Flowers, princesses and figures emerge from an almost mineral material: Monticelli does not fill the shapes with color, he lets color produce the world.
Adolphe Joseph Thomas Monticelli was born in Marseille in 1824 and died there in 1886. Formed between his hometown and Paris, he developed a painting immediately recognizable by its impasto, its deep tones and its sparkles which seem embedded in the surface. His court scenes do not reconstruct a precise historical episode: small characters, dresses, trees and architecture rather compose a colorful theater, sometimes inspired by gallant parties and memories of old masters. The Princess's Court, oil on wood measuring 38.1 × 59.4 cm, thus transforms the panel into a precious stage. Between 1879 and 1883, Monticelli created his most admired still lifes. Flowers in a vase blue, oil on wood of 67.3 × 48.9 cm, brings together the tones like a dense orchestration where the bouquet serves as a pretext for chromatic agreement. Cézanne and Van Gogh looked at his work with fascination. In Monticelli, a figure or a flower only becomes readable after the initial shock of the material and the color. The "Adolphe Monticelli" selection notably compares Four Figures and Flowers in a Vase. His reading favors drawing.
Monticelli does not place colors on a bouquet: he makes the bouquet the provisional event of a color that has become material.
Course & style
Journey, subjects and pictorial language
Train between Marseille and Paris
Monticelli confronts southern color, old masters and gallant scenes. This milestone sheds light on the "Adolphe Monticelli" collection by favoring drawing.
Thicken pictorial theater
Figures and settings become appearances within a dark and shiny material.
Paint the large bouquets
Flowers allow him to orchestrate the full extent of his palette.
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Precious impasto
Relief painting captures light like a mosaic. This line guides a reading of "Adolphe Monticelli" centered on drawing.
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Twilight background
The shapes emerge from a darkness that intensifies each brilliance.
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Figure appeared
The character is not drawn and then colored: it is formed in the keys.
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Tonal orchestration
Reds, blues, golds and greens function as simultaneous voices.
Explore by universe
When matter becomes subject
Bouquet, courtyard, figures and darkness explain the modernity of a painting admired by Cézanne and Van Gogh.
Bouquet01
The chromatic laboratory
The flowers bring the entire range together on a compact surface.
For color. Reading "Adolphe Monticelli" through drawing.Court02
Imaginary theater
The aristocratic festival becomes a pretext for dresses, groups and shards.
For the stageTwilight03
The setting of tones
The dark background gives the light touches an almost luminous intensity.
For atmosphereMatter04
The form in the making
Thickness makes objects and figures appear without a closed outline.
For techniqueFigurative group05
Four figures
Four characters appear as tonal chords within a deliberately indeterminate space.
Landmark work by Adolphe Monticelli1879 - 188306
Flowers in a vase
The blue vase stabilizes a bouquet whose impasto brings together the entire palette.
Landmark work by Adolphe Monticelli
Works to discover
Figures, flowers and princely court
Three panels show the same logic: an image is gradually formed in the colored thickness.
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A medium format will preserve the density of the impastos. Black wood, bronze frame or patinated gilding will bring out the chips without competing with the material.
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