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JEANNE SELMERSHEIM-DESGRANGE, Sans titre (Nature morte, carottes, melon et poissons), c. 1910-1915

JEANNE SELMERSHEIM-DESGRANGE Française, 1877-1958

Sans titre (Nature morte, carottes, melon et poissons), c. 1910-1915
Huile sur toile
Oil on canvas
73 x 92 cm
28 3/4 x 36 1/4 in
© Estate Jeanne Selmersheim-Desgrange
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FR VERSION Cette nature morte de grand format réunit les motifs chers à Jeanne Selmersheim-Desgrange : légumes, fruits, poissons et ustensiles de cuisine, disposés sur une table drapée d’une nappe...
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FR VERSION

Cette nature morte de grand format réunit les motifs chers à Jeanne Selmersheim-Desgrange : légumes, fruits, poissons et ustensiles de cuisine, disposés sur une table drapée d’une nappe blanche à carreaux roses. La composition, savamment étudiée, s’élève en pyramide : le melon entamé et les carottes captent la lumière au centre, puis le regard monte jusqu’aux gousses d’ail suspendues devant un mur jaune doré.

L’artiste s’attache aux matières, l’étain de la cruche, les reflets argentés des poissons, la transparence du bocal, le bois sculpté de la boîte à sel. Sa touche, faite de petits rectangles de couleur juxtaposés, fait vibrer les verts, les orangés et les rouges, tandis que la nappe, dans des tons plus clairs, apporte du calme à l’ensemble. La table bascule vers le spectateur et les objets semblent prêts à glisser. Ce n’est pas une maladresse : elle joue avec la perspective et préfère l’équilibre des couleurs à l’exactitude des proportions.

Une œuvre comparable, Rascasse et citrons (vers 1911-1914), est entrée en 2025 au musée d’Orsay, offerte par Charlotte Cachin, arrière-petite-fille de l’artiste. Elle devient la première œuvre de Selmersheim-Desgrange à rejoindre les collections nationales, et la première nature morte néo-impressionniste à y entrer.


EN VERSION

This large-format still life brings together motifs dear to Jeanne Selmersheim-Desgrange: vegetables, fruit, fish and kitchen utensils, arranged on a table draped with a white tablecloth with pink checks. The carefully studied composition rises in a pyramid: the cut melon and carrots catch the light at the centre, then the eye moves upwards to the garlic bulbs hanging in front of a golden-yellow wall.

The artist pays particular attention to materials: the pewter of the jug, the silvery reflections of the fish, the transparency of the jar, the carved wood of the salt box. Her brushwork, made up of small juxtaposed rectangles of colour, makes the greens, oranges and reds vibrate, while the tablecloth, in lighter tones, brings a sense of calm to the whole. The table tilts towards the viewer and the objects seem ready to slide. This is not a clumsiness: she plays with perspective and favours the balance of colours over the accuracy of proportions.

A comparable work, Rascasse et citrons (c. 1911–1914), entered the Musée d’Orsay in 2025, donated by Charlotte Cachin, the artist’s great-granddaughter. It became the first work by Selmersheim-Desgrange to enter the national collections, and the first Neo-Impressionist still life to do so.

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