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French 1893-1972
A
painter remarkable for his highly personal portraits and landscape
views, Jacques Martin-Ferrières was the son of the great
post-Impressionist painter Henri Martin (1860-1943). He studied with
his father and with the French academic painter Frederic Cormon
(1845-1924). Like his father, Martin-Ferrières became a master at
reproducing the scintillating effects of light on canvas. Despite his
father’s strong influence, though, Jac developed a technique that was
uniquely his own: paint is applied in swift and short brushstrokes of
opaque color, at times overlapping and at times separated, revealing a
pale ground layer and producing a mosaic-like surface.
Martin-Ferrières
was awarded many national prizes, including an honorable mention at the
Salon of 1920, a silver medal in 1923, the National Prize in 1925, and a
Gold Medal and Legay-Lebrun Prize in 1928. A retrospective of his work
in 1965 confirmed his respected status.
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