Christian Rohlfs (1849-1938)
Émile Bernard (1868-1941)

Adoration des bergers

细节
Émile Bernard (1868-1941)
Adoration des bergers
signed and inscribed 'Emile Bernard peint grandeur nature à St-Briac en 1888. sur le mur de ma chambre. long. 5 met haut. 2 met.' (lower edge)
pen and ink and pencil on paper
8 ¾ x 15 ¾ in. (22.1 x 40 cm.)
Executed in Saint-Briac in 1888
来源
Private collection, Switzerland.
Anonymous sale, Hôtel de Ventes, Geneva, 13 June 2016, lot 1158.
Private collection, Paris, by whom acquired at the above sale.
出版
F. Leeman, Émile Bernard, Paris, 2013, no. 59, p. 122 (illustrated).
J.-J. Luthi & A. Israël, Émile Bernard, sa vie, son œuvre, catalogue raisonné, Paris, 2014, no. 1877, p. 402 (illustrated).
Exh. cat., Émile Bernard, Paris, 2015 (illustrated fig. 4, p. 13).

拍品专文

Béatrice Recchi-Altarriba has confirmed the authenticity of this work.

Bernard was commissioned in 1888 to create a fresco for a bedroom in the house of Madame Lemasson, for which he created the biblical scene L’Adoration des Bergers. The original fresco was sadly destroyed by Nazi bombing in 1943, leaving this unique sketch and discussions of the work in letters to his mother and Van Gogh remaining. Bernard draws on primitive and byzantine techniques of representing a religious scene; the figures are aligned in a frieze-like manner as though they were adorned on a stained glass window in a church, and the pillars in the work were designed to create a trompe l’œil effect that resembled the architecture of the bedroom the fresco sat in. In the finished fresco Bernard used the medieval colour palette of primary colours, however in this sketch the simplified figures and monochromatic palette appear modern and draw on the primitive style adopted by Bernard’s contemporary Gauguin around the same time.

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