Éléphant au bain devant le temple d’Angkor, c.1922
Oil on panel, signed lower left
64.50 x 91.50 cm
History:
In 1921, Jouve was awarded a scholarship by the General Government of Indochina. As such, he made an eleven-month long trip to the Far East between September 1922 and July 1923, and this experience would have a lasting impact on his work. He left Marseille on the Porthosle 8 September, after a few stops, he disembarked in Ceylon and then continued to Malaysia, Cochinchina, Annam and Angkor, which he joined in October 1922, where he stayed for three months, having the opportunity to paint and draw a number of elephants and temples.
Provenance:
Paul Jouve's collection
Purchased from the artist by the current owner's father
Bibliography:
Félix Marcilhac, Paul Jouve peintre sculpteur animalier, Les éditions de l’Amateur, 2005, illustrated on p. 132.
Exhibition history:
Paul Jouve, Galerie Haussmann-Danthon, 29 rue de la Boétie, Paris, 23 May – 20 June 1925, n°11.
Paul Jouve, Musée des Beaux-Arts de Mulhouse, 17 – 28 February 1926, n°3.