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Farm on Estate
Bequeathed by Frank Hindley Smith 1940
agricultural
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Serbonne
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Vallée du Grande Morin
<p>This landscape was painted during the arists'stay in the Vallée du Grand Morin. He later wrote of this period, 'I was looking in the Ile-de-France for a region which had preserved its purity and poetry intact, without being disfigured by rows of summer-houses, imitation Renaissance châteaux, pseudo-Basque chalets, all those monstrosities which too frequently invade the countryside fifty kilometers around Paris. It was in the hamlet of Serbonne, in a humble inn, that I installed myself in November 192[2] to collect my thoughts and work in solitude and calm on winter landscapes which I have always preferred in their gravity to the brilliance of the summer sun'.</p><p><em>Gallery label, September 2004</em></p>
painting oil paint canvas
The Farm on the Estate
support: 600 × 810 mm
Bequeathed by Frank Hindley Smith 1940
<p>This <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/l/landscape" title="Glossary definition for 'Landscape'"><span>landscape</span></a> was painted during the arists'stay in the Vallée du Grand Morin. He later wrote of this period, 'I was looking in the Ile-de-France for a region which had preserved its purity and poetry intact, without being disfigured by rows of summer-houses, imitation <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/r/renaissance" title="Glossary definition for 'Renaissance'"><span>Renaissance</span></a> châteaux, pseudo-Basque chalets, all those monstrosities which too frequently invade the countryside fifty kilometers around Paris. It was in the hamlet of Serbonne, in a humble inn, that I installed myself in November 192[2] to collect my thoughts and work in solitude and calm on winter landscapes which I have always preferred in their gravity to the brilliance of the summer sun'.</p>
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<p><b>André Dunoyer de Segonzac</b><span>
1884-1974</span>
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<p><span><a class="acno-pop" data-gtm-destination="page--artwork" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/dunoyer-de-segonzac-the-farm-on-the-estate-n05069" title="View the details of this artwork"><span>N05069</span></a> </span><b>La Ferme dans la Terre</b><span>
(The Farm on the Estate) 1923 </span>
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<p><span>Inscribed 'A.D. de Segonzac' b.r.</span>
<br/><span>Oil on canvas, 23 x 31 (60 x 81)</span>
<br/><span>Bequeathed by Frank Hindley Smith 1940</span>
<br/><i>Prov:</i><span>
Frank Hindley Smith, Southport (purchased from the artist through the Independent Gallery, London, 1923)</span>
<br/><i>Exh:</i><span>
</span><i>Paintings, Drawings and Etchings by André Dunoyer de Segonzac</i><span>, Independent Gallery, London, October 1923 (1) as 'La Ferme dans la Terre'; </span><i>The CAS: Loan Exhibition of Modern Foreign Painting, Colnaghi's Galleries, London, June-July 1924 (57); Loan Collection of Pictures</i><span>, Castle Museum, Norwich, October-November 1925 (75); </span><i>Dunoyer de Segonzac</i><span>, Independent Gallery, London, June 1927 (20); </span><i>Dunoyer de Segonzac</i><span>, Galerie Charpentier, Paris, May-July 1960 (20); </span><i>Dunoyer de Segonzac</i><span>, Orangerie des Tuileries, Paris, February-May 1976 (23, repr.)</span>
<br/><i>Lit:</i><span>
Paul Jamot, </span><i>Dunoyer de Segonzac</i><span> (Paris 1929), pp.144, 232, repr. p.169; Paul Jamot, </span><i>Dunoyer de Segonzac</i><span> (Paris 1941), p.180; Claude Roger-Marx, </span><i>Dunoyer de Segonzac</i><span> (Geneva 1951), pp.71, IV, repr. pl.78; Dunoyer de Segonzac, </span><i>Dessins 1900-1970</i><span> (Geneva 1970), pp.112-13</span>
<br/><i>Repr:</i><span>
</span><i>L'Art et les Artistes</i><span>, N.S. ix, 1924, p.265 </span>
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<p><span>The artist wrote on 12 August 1955 that this farm is situated close to the little hamlet of Serbonne near Crécy-en-Brie, in the Vallée du Grand Morin, and that the picture was painted in the winter of 1923-4. In his notes on this period in </span><i>Dessins 1900-1970</i><span>, he added: </span>
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<p><span>'My first visit in 1923-1924 to the Vallée du Grand Morin was a revelation to me. I was looking in the Ile-de-France for a region which had preserved its purity and poetry intact, without being disfigured by rows of summer-houses, imitation <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/r/renaissance" title="Glossary definition for 'Renaissance'"><span>Renaissance</span></a> châteaux, pseudo Basque chalets, all those monstrosities which too frequently invade the countryside fifty kilometres around Paris. </span>
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<p><span>'It was in the hamlet of Serbonne, in a humble inn, that I installed myself in November 1923 to collect my thoughts and work in solitude and calm on winter <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/l/landscape" title="Glossary definition for 'Landscape'"><span>landscapes</span></a> which I have always preferred in their gravity to the brilliance of the summer sun ...’ </span>
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<p><span>'Then in Spring 1924, I left Serbonne for Villiers-sur-Morin.' </span>
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<p><span>Though this account is no doubt correct in other respects, he was evidently mistaken about the year of his visit, which according to Paul Jamot's monograph of 1929 took place in the winter of 1922-3, not 1923-4. This earlier dating is borne out by the fact that the Tate's picture was exhibited in London as early as October 1923. </span>
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<p><span>The <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/p/painting" title="Glossary definition for 'Painting'"><span>painting</span></a> has also been known as 'La Ferme dans les Terres' and 'Route sur la Ferme'. </span>
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<p><b>Published in:</b>
<br/><span>Ronald Alley, </span><i>Catalogue of the Tate Gallery's Collection of Modern Art other than Works by British Artists</i><span>, Tate Gallery and Sotheby Parke-Bernet, London 1981, pp.197-8, reproduced p.197 </span>
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agricultural architecture cities, towns, villages (non-UK) countries and continents farm farmland France hill landscape natural features (non-UK) places road Serbonne townscapes / man-made features Vallée du Grande Morin