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An exhibition of 20th Century Master Watercolours will take place at the Grosvenor gallery from 3rd May until 29th June 2000
The use of watercolour in European painting is a relatively recent phenomenon. In Continental Europe watercolour was seldom used before the 19th Century as artists favoured the use of gouache. However, by the latter half of the 19th Century, under the influence of the great British landscape artists such as Turner and Constable, the French school, including the Impressionists, began to adopt what had previously been regarded as a British tradition. By the turn of the Twentieth Century, the use of watercolour had become an inherent part of French landscape painting and experimental painting.
The exhibition features works by some of the most prominent French artists of the Twentieth Century. Highlights from the exhibition include «Paysage Environs de Melun» by Paul Cézanne who is regarded as one of the greatest watercolour painters of all times. «Concarneau» by Paul Signac is a beautiful light and fluid port scene painted with characteristic charm from his yacht. André Derain is represented by «Gavotte», an exceptional Fauve watercolour of dancers in an Arcadian scene. There are Cubist works by Georges Braque Charles Dufresne, Leopold Survage and Marc Chagall. Other artists exhibited include Henri-Edmond Cross, Jules Pascin and Julio Gonzales, whos is better known as a sculptor.
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