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Le Pont Neuf Paris
Presented by the artist 1973
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paper print lithograph
Le Pont Neuf, Paris
image: 435 × 552 mm
Presented by the artist 1973
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<b>Paule Vézelay b.1893</b>
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<p><a class="acno-pop" data-gtm-destination="page--artwork" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/vezelay-le-pont-neuf-paris-p02069" title="View the details of this artwork"><span>P02069</span></a> Le Pont Neuf, Paris<b> 1921</b>
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<p>Inscribed ‘The Pont Neuf, Paris’ b.l. and ‘Paule Vézelay<b> 1921’</b> b.r.<br/>Lithograph on paper, 17 x 21<b>¾</b> (43<b>.</b>2 x 55).<br/>Presented by the artist<b> 1973.</b>
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<p>This lithograph is one of an unnumbered single edition of<b> 100</b> made in<b> 1921.</b> In a letter to the compiler<b> (15</b> February<b> 1974)</b><b> </b>the artist wrote: ‘Only two prints now remain, since some were sold but the greater part of the edition was stolen in Paris during the last war, with very many paintings and other works.’ In another letter to the compiler<b> (18</b> January<b> 1974)</b> the artist stated: ‘The lithograph “Le Pont Neuf” was made in London on a lithographic stone, from a drawing made in Paris in a small hotel overlooking the Place du Pont Neuf which was situated between the Quai de L’Orloge and the Quai des Orfevres.’</p>
<p>It is similar to the series of views of the Pont Neuf which Camille Pissarro painted from<b> 1900–1903</b> but the artist said that she did not know where the studio once occupied by Pissarro was.</p>
<p>Although influenced by Impressionism, ‘Le Pont Neuf, Paris’ with its emphasis upon the linear rhythms of railings, steps, tree branches and the arches of the Pont Neuf, foreshadows the artist’s later preoccupation with straight and curved lines.</p>
<p>Published in<i> The Tate Gallery Report 1972–1974</i>, London 1975.</p>
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2012-07-27T00:00:00
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architecture boat, barge bridge bridges and viaducts cities, towns, villages (non-UK) countries and continents France monuments natural features (non-UK) Paris, Pont Neuf places river River Seine society square statue streetlight townscapes / man-made features transport: water tree water: inland