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Henri Victor Gabriel Le Fauconnier

Mountaineers Attacked by Bears, 1910-1912

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Description

Maker

  • Henri Victor Gabriel Le Fauconnier, 1881-1946, French

Title

Mountaineers Attacked by Bears

Year

1910-1912

Medium

Oil on canvas

Materials/Techniques

Materials

  • oil paint

Supports

  • canvas

Dimensions

239.6 x 305.4 x 4.4 cm (94 5/16 x 120 1/4 x 1 3/4 inches)

Place

France

Type

  • Paintings

Credit

Gift of the Peau de L'Ours II Society in celebration of Daniel Robbins

Object Number

1995.043

Exhibition History

Exhibition History

"The Center Cannot Hold"

March 1 - July 1, 1999

Cubism and Its Affinities

September 1 - December 10, 1995

European Galleries

This complex and monumental painting depicts a group of mountaineers as they are attacked by bears. Dominated by the bear at left, the scene is densely packed with disassociated body parts, hunters with exploding muskets, frightened children in striped shirts, and random puffs of smoke. Glimpses of landscape and urban architecture reinforce Le Fauconnier’s belief that motifs rendered in a radical Cubist vocabulary need not be separated from the physical world. In this grand-scale performance, he fragments figures, time, and space, while preserving dramatic and pictorial unity.

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