BC106
Bry-sur-Marne
[Two Buildings]
High viewpoint overlooks the central building with windows each side of the door. Single pitch roof. Another building at right set at an angle.
Verso UL pencil (not in artist's hand) A262 31 79-206
Donated to the Alexander Turnbull Library, National Library of New Zealand by H. F. V. Scales, 1979
Unframed work on white paper. Page torn from a spiral-bound sketchbook, approx 45 spirals. Paper torn at centre right margin, taped with clear tape on verso. Brown triangular mark LR, also visible from verso. Mark not present in original Alexander Turnbull Library documentation.
Alexander Turnbull Library, National Library of New Zealand
Wellington, New Zealand
Title supplied by artist at time of donation, 1979. Date taken from Alexander Turnbull Library, National Library of New Zealand documentation.
Alexander Turnbull Library documentation notes, "Looking down onto a hilly landscape with the roofs of nearby houses."
Christiane Devèze, Boris Kalachnikoff’s wife, in conversations with Marc Bonamie, Paris, France, 2016, “Flora loved to paint outdoors - nature, landscapes - in sunlight. She often drew and painted animals, especially our dogs and cats, and was very happy painting the plum trees in full bloom in our garden at Bry-Sur-Marne. Boris would often walk with her into the countryside to paint the farmland and houses in earlier days. We would sometimes go together to his parents' country house in Genevieve St Bois, to Provence where my parents lived, or to Bleymard in the Lozère District where my family has a holiday house. We all drew and painted happily, side by side, discussing our work all the time, but keeping our own different styles during these painting holidays.” – ‘Christiane Devezes: Conversations and Letters II’, Flora Scales, The Suter Te Aratoi o Whakatū, Nelson, New Zealand, 2018