Henri MARTIN (1860-1943 )Muse with a lyre... - Lot 35 - Ader

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Henri MARTIN (1860-1943 )Muse with a lyre... - Lot 35 - Ader
Henri MARTIN (1860-1943 )Muse with a lyre with a reprise of the lyre, circa 1881Black stone and red chalk. Signed and dedicated lower right: "To his friend V. Champier Henri Martin". 39.5 x 65 cmExhibitions : - Bordeaux, 1906 (label on the back). - Roubaix (label on the back). This is a preparatory drawing for The Poet, 1881, oil on canvas (300 x 520 cm) kept in the Musée des Augustins in Toulouse, n° RO-164. in this painting, Henri Martin transposes the opera Orpheus and Eurydice by Christoph Willibald Gluck . The artist depicts the moment when Orpheus, gloomy and despairing of having lost his Eurydice, is pulled by his Muse in full flight (sleeve rolled up by the movement of air, and even more so in our drawing) towards light and hope, symbolized by a shepherd and his sheep, a woman and her baby, and reapers, increasingly lit in the background. We thank Mrs. Marie-Anne Destrebecq-Martin for the information she has given us.
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