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Olga Sacharoff (Russian, 1889-1967) Figures in a Forest with a Dog (framed 57.5 x 49.0 x 4.0 cm ...
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Olga Sacharoff (Russian, 1889-1967) Figures in a Forest with a Dog signed 'Olga Sacharoff' (lower right) oil on canvas 50.5 x 42.5 cm (19 7/8 x 16 3/4 in). framed 57.5 x 49.0 x 4.0 cm (22 5/8 x 19 5/16 x 1 9/16 in). Footnotes: N.B. Olga Sacharoff is one of the most important figures in the history of French and Spanish avant-garde and Surrealist art. She was born in what is now Georgia and studied at the Tbilisi State Academy of Arts before spending the first decade of the 20th century in Rome and Munich, where she first encountered the work of modern Expressionists such as Wassily Kandinsky and Franz Marc. Sacharoff later moved with her husband, the photographer Otho Lloyd, to Paris; here, she became friends with the likes of Paul Cézanne, Pablo Picasso, and Sonia Delaunay. Her experimentation with light, form, and line is a testament to her deep familiarity with the artistic currents of the time. The outbreak of World War I led Sacharoff and Lloyd to relocate to Spain, where they settled in Barcelona. It is here that she began to experiment with Dadaism, collaborating with the writer and artist Francis Picabia to publish the arts and literary magazine 391. Among the contributors to this magazine were Marie Laurencin, Marcel Duchamp, and Guillaume Apollinaire. She also developed a particular admiration for the work of Henri Rousseau during this time, incorporating into her work his careful spatial arrangements, linear forms, and cool tones. Over the following decade, Sacharoff participated in numerous shows at the Salon des Tuileries and Société des Artistes Indépendants in Paris and was a central fixture in the French and Spanish art scenes. After her separation from Lloyd in 1929, Sacharoff stopped painting for a while before reemerging in 1934 with an exhibition at Barcelona's Layetanes Gallery. In the 1940s and '50s, she exhibited at galleries in New York, Barcelona, and Madrid. In 1964 she was awarded the Medalla d'Or de Barcelona, cementing her legacy in Catalan art. The present work reveals myriad influences: the flat, linear forms of Cézanne; the simple, naïve figures and faces of Modigliani and Laurencin; the delicate arrangement of form, color, and light indebted to the Cubists and avante-garde. The lush forest setting particularly references the work of Rousseau. The subject is enigmatic and undefined: two blank-faced people face the viewer, a dog at their feet, and two people face away from us. There is an element of imposed voyeurism in the positioning of the viewer, who is trapped in three direct gazes, caught as an involuntary intruder. The flatness of the setting and absence of sky imbues the scene with a claustrophobic stillness. This work likely dates to the mid- to late 1920s; many of Sacharoff's works during this period also take place in a timeless, somewhat unsettling forest. For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com For further information about this lot please visit the lot listing
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Olga Sacharoff (Russian, 1889-1967) Figures in a Forest with a Dog signed 'Olga Sacharoff' (lower right) oil on canvas 50.5 x 42.5 cm (19 7/8 x 16 3/4 in). framed 57.5 x 49.0 x 4.0 cm (22 5/8 x 19 5/16 x 1 9/16 in). Footnotes: N.B. Olga Sacharoff is one of the most important figures in the history of French and Spanish avant-garde and Surrealist art. She was born in what is now Georgia and studied at the Tbilisi State Academy of Arts before spending the first decade of the 20th century in Rome and Munich, where she first encountered the work of modern Expressionists such as Wassily Kandinsky and Franz Marc. Sacharoff later moved with her husband, the photographer Otho Lloyd, to Paris; here, she became friends with the likes of Paul Cézanne, Pablo Picasso, and Sonia Delaunay. Her experimentation with light, form, and line is a testament to her deep familiarity with the artistic currents of the time. The outbreak of World War I led Sacharoff and Lloyd to relocate to Spain, where they settled in Barcelona. It is here that she began to experiment with Dadaism, collaborating with the writer and artist Francis Picabia to publish the arts and literary magazine 391. Among the contributors to this magazine were Marie Laurencin, Marcel Duchamp, and Guillaume Apollinaire. She also developed a particular admiration for the work of Henri Rousseau during this time, incorporating into her work his careful spatial arrangements, linear forms, and cool tones. Over the following decade, Sacharoff participated in numerous shows at the Salon des Tuileries and Société des Artistes Indépendants in Paris and was a central fixture in the French and Spanish art scenes. After her separation from Lloyd in 1929, Sacharoff stopped painting for a while before reemerging in 1934 with an exhibition at Barcelona's Layetanes Gallery. In the 1940s and '50s, she exhibited at galleries in New York, Barcelona, and Madrid. In 1964 she was awarded the Medalla d'Or de Barcelona, cementing her legacy in Catalan art. The present work reveals myriad influences: the flat, linear forms of Cézanne; the simple, naïve figures and faces of Modigliani and Laurencin; the delicate arrangement of form, color, and light indebted to the Cubists and avante-garde. The lush forest setting particularly references the work of Rousseau. The subject is enigmatic and undefined: two blank-faced people face the viewer, a dog at their feet, and two people face away from us. There is an element of imposed voyeurism in the positioning of the viewer, who is trapped in three direct gazes, caught as an involuntary intruder. The flatness of the setting and absence of sky imbues the scene with a claustrophobic stillness. This work likely dates to the mid- to late 1920s; many of Sacharoff's works during this period also take place in a timeless, somewhat unsettling forest. For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com For further information about this lot please visit the lot listing
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