A landscape painting in strong colors viewed through trees.
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Photo © President and Fellows of Harvard College

The painting shows a view through trees, the branches are black looped lines accented with leaves of purple, blue and greenish white. Light brown in the lower right is bordered by a green swathe from right to left. A line of trees composed of V-shaped strokes with white puffy tops are placed behind the green swathe. Green and brown hills are outlined by roughly brushed-on lines of blue and brown. A line of dark blue and purple mountains against a milky white sky are behind the hills across the top.

Identification and Creation

Object Number
1960.734
People
André Lhote, French (Bordeaux, France 1885 - 1962 Paris, France)
Title
The Trees
Classification
Paintings
Work Type
painting
Date
1909
Culture
French
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/220252

Location

Location
Level 1, Room 1300, Modern and Contemporary Art, Early Modernism
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Physical Descriptions

Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
59.1 x 71.8 cm (23 1/4 x 28 1/4 in.)
framed: 82.7 x 95.7 x 6.3 cm (32 9/16 x 37 11/16 x 2 1/2 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: l.l.: A. Lhote

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
André Lhote (1909 - c. 1956). [Marlborough Gallery, London, no.01039]. Mr. and Mrs. Joseph H. Hazen, New York, New York, sold; to [M. Knoedler, New York, New York], 1960, sold; to Fogg Art Museum, 1960.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph H. Hazen
Copyright
© Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris
Accession Year
1960
Object Number
1960.734
Division
Modern and Contemporary Art
Contact
am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
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Exhibition History

  • Collection of Joseph H. Hazen, Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, 08/01/1969 - 09/30/1969
  • Cubism: Explorations and Adaptations, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 09/18/1982 - 10/26/1982
  • Modern Art at Harvard, Bunkamura Museum of Art, Tokyo, 07/31/1999 - 09/26/1999; Takamatsu City Museum of Art, Kagawa, 10/09/1999 - 11/14/1999; Matsuzakaya Art Museum, Nagoya, 12/02/1999 - 12/27/1999; Oita City Museum, Oita, 01/06/2000 - 02/06/2000; Museum of Modern Art, Ibaraki, Ibaraki, 02/11/2000 - 03/26/2000
  • 32Q: 1300 Early Modernism, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 02/09/2016 - 01/01/2050

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