Attributed to Alfred BOTTINI - Lot 492

Lot n° 492
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Attributed to Alfred BOTTINI - Lot 492
Attributed to Alfred BOTTINI Woman at her toilette Oil on canvas Unsigned 58 x 73 cm The style employed in this canvas is similar to the painting by Georges Alfred BOTTINI sold on March 27, 2014 at Drouot Richelieu, Paris, featuring a nude young woman at the toilet smelling a rose. In Alfred Bottini's work, the nude woman at the toilet is not an academic pretext, but a silent apparition. The body is revealed without emphasis, in the intimacy of an ordinary gesture, between water, linen and the light of a closed interior. Nothing heroic, nothing theatrical: just the sweetness of a surprised moment. Her paintings envelop rather than describe. Flesh takes on a muted warmth, contours melt away, light caresses shapes rather than harshly defining them. In this way, the nude becomes a subject of pictorial contemplation, almost of confidence, where the woman in her toilette appears as a fragile presence, absorbed in herself, offered not to the spectacle, but to painting. Please ask for the condition reports: they are not included in the descriptions. If you succeed in getting a lot(s), please note that your lot(s) will go to Drouot's Packing (magasinage) the morning after the sale.
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