Untitled [Bry-sur-Marne Street Scene]

Catalogue

View of town. Tall roughly rectangular shape to left. Tree, right of centre. A blue rectangular shape either side of tree trunk. Rounded shapes, possibly cars, lower centre.

Other title(s)

Bry-sur-Marne, the day de Gaulle became President

Date

1950

Object type

painting

Medium and materials

oil on canvas

Dimensions

280x355mm

Place Made

Bry-sur-Marne, France

Inscriptions

LL on canvas over lower edge of stretcher ochre brush point Scales

LR blue brush point H Scales 1950

Verso pencil (not in artist's hand) painted the day de Gaulle became President, 1950 (now covered by frame)

Verso Upper Centre label 343

Verso UL label artwork details

Provenance

Donated to the Alexander Turnbull Library, National Library of New Zealand by H. F. V. Scales, 1979

Courtesy Alexander Turnbull Library, National Library of New Zealand, Reference no. G-343

Current Collection

Alexander Turnbull Library, National Library of New Zealand

Current Location

Wellington, New Zealand

Keywords

landscape format landscape oil painting townscape trees cars buildings Bry-sur-Marne France middle years streetscene

Title and date supplied by artist at time of donation, 1979.

Alexander Turnbull Library, National Library of New Zealand documentation notes, “Bry-sur-Marne, the day de Gaulle became President. Shows riverbank and cars parked alongside.” A hand-written card included in a file reference Alexander Turnbull Library File Prints, Drawings, Paintings and Prints Collection, notes, "The small "humps" preresent cars in the street (Gretchen Albrecht 10.09.91)".

Charles de Gaulle was inaugurated as the First President of the Fifth Republic in France in January 1959.

Bry-sur-Marne is a commune in the eastern suburbs of Paris, France, 12.6 km from the city centre. In 1953, when Boris and Christiane Kalachnikoff built their house in Bry-sur-Marne, the population was approximately 6,660 and the town still retained its rural character.