Untitled [Bry-sur-Marne Street Scene]

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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

LR blue brush point H Scales 1950

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

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

Credit Line

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

Donated to the Alexander Turnbull Library, National Library of New Zealand by the artist, 1979. Title and date supplied by artist at time of donation. Alexander Turnbull Library documentation “Bry-sur-Marne, the day de Gaulle became President. Shows riverbank and cars parked alongside.”

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

Bry-sur-Marne is a commune in the eastern suburbs of Paris, 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.

BC038

Untitled

[Bry-sur-Marne Street Scene]