Lot Essay
This is the original decoration for the pavilion of the city of Bordeaux at the 1931 International Colonial Exhibition in Paris. Vettiner also painted another, similar, large decoration for this event, of a Moroccan port, from which merchandise is being embarked for shipping.
The artist's family owns watercolour studies for these, probably those shown at the retrospective of Vettiner's work at the 26th Salon of L'Atelier in Bordeaux in 1935: Port marocain (Moroccan port), no. 56, and Côte occidentale d' Afrique (West Coast of Africa), no. 57.
Africans also appear in his illustration for a promotional booklet of the International Colonial Exhibition, which was held in and around the Bois de Vincennes, in the south-east of Paris.
We are grateful to the following for their assistance in preparing this catalogue entry and the biography of Vettiner: the artist's family, the Musée des Beaux-Arts de Bordeaux, and Sophie Madamet, author of Recherche sur l'Oeuvre gravée de Jean-Baptiste Vettiner, dissertation, Université de Bordeaux III, 1985.
The artist's family owns watercolour studies for these, probably those shown at the retrospective of Vettiner's work at the 26th Salon of L'Atelier in Bordeaux in 1935: Port marocain (Moroccan port), no. 56, and Côte occidentale d' Afrique (West Coast of Africa), no. 57.
Africans also appear in his illustration for a promotional booklet of the International Colonial Exhibition, which was held in and around the Bois de Vincennes, in the south-east of Paris.
We are grateful to the following for their assistance in preparing this catalogue entry and the biography of Vettiner: the artist's family, the Musée des Beaux-Arts de Bordeaux, and Sophie Madamet, author of Recherche sur l'Oeuvre gravée de Jean-Baptiste Vettiner, dissertation, Université de Bordeaux III, 1985.