570.00€
Oil on canvas: 35cm x 35cm x 3.5cm
Signed and dated by the artist (reverse)
Catalogue reference: CK-jj007
Mr Lunt is a modern, graphic representation of a centuries old trend, that of the artist depicting ‘man with pipe’. Renowned artists have often looked to the man at ease with his pipe (and occasionally woman with pipe) as subject matter for their explorations into portraiture and social commentary. Here, rather than a specific individuals portrait we see Mr Lunt: an iconic distillation of the most respected of things—the English gentleman.
In a world spinning ever faster and further out of alignment there will always be a welcome place for the decorum and civility embodied by the original English gent. A figure imbibed with good humour, impeccable manners and lightly peppered with acceptable levels of eccentricity who can be relied upon to bring back the equilibrium.
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Artist’s Notes:
From the Dutch golden age to the modern art movement and beyond the pipe smoker in paint has flourished.
Brought to life during the grandeur of Baroque, dabbed onto canvas by the Pointillists and chopped, daubed
and rearranged by the Cubists.
Gabriel Metsu, (Smoker seated at a table, 1654-57, A woman seated smoking a pipe, 1629-67)
Gerard Dou, (Man smoking a pipe, 1650)
Gustavo-Courbet, (self-portrait Man with the pipe, 1848, Man with a pipe 1860)
Claude Monet, (Man with pipe, 1864)
Pierre-Auguste Renoir, (Portrait of Claude Monet reading…and smoking his pipe, 1872)
Paul Cezanne, (The smoker, 1891-2, Man with a pipe, 1892, Man smoking a pipe, 1902)
Pablo Picasso’s Rose period beginnings, (Garçon à la pipe, 1905) to his final Cubist contortions, (Man with pipe, 1968)
Jean Metzinger, (Portrait of an American smoker, 1911-12)
Amedeo Modigliani, (Man with a pipe, 1919)
Joan Miró, (Man with a pipe, 1925)
Norman Rockwell, (Triple self-portrait, 1969)
LUNT. Origin (1540-50) lont, match, fuse, wick. NOUN: Smoke or steam, especially smoke from a tobacco pipe.
INTRANSITIVE VERB: To emit smoke or steam/to smoke a pipe.
