George SAND - Landscape, rocks and ruins - original watercolor Dendrite drawing

George SAND (1804 - 1876), French writer
Landscape, rocks and ruins, (circa 1870)

Dendrite and watercolor on paper

Dimensions: 14 x 19.5 cm.

Provenance: Franca and Pierre Belfond Collection

Exhibitions: Similar to exhibitions: Maison Balzac (Drawings by French writers of the 19th century, 1983), Sueños de tinta, 1993 (La Palmas de Gran Canaria), Museum of Romantic Life (George Sand,
an artist's nature, 2004), at the IMC at the Berardo Museum in Lisbon, Municipal Museum of Ixelles (drawings by writers, 2008), Schim Kunsthalle in Frankfurt (Turner, Hugo, Moreau, Entdeckung der
Abstraction, 2008).

All of these drawings come from an album, anthological, prepared around 1875 by George Sand and later completed by her son Maurice, of approximately 47 drawings for her dear granddaughters Aurore
and Gabrielle, the children of her son. She made her first drawings in the purest romantic style at the time when her name was still Aurore Dudevant, to evolve later towards abstract forms which
she gave the famous name of "dendrites". In her memories, recounted in "History of my life (IV, 12), the novelist tells how she wanted to earn a living by painting "ornamental flowers and birds, in
microscopic compositions on snuffboxes and cigar cases". , but also fans and tea boxes, among others. She specified that she liked to create "portraits in pencil or watercolor in a few hours: "I
grasped the resemblance very well, I drew my little heads quite a bit. ". In the light of her life, she practiced dendrites or watercolor crushing. This process consisted of crushing the color to
produce figurative forms.

We have here a touching testimony of this unknown life as an artist of the famous novelist.

A book is devoted to the graphic works of George Sand by Christian Bernadac, "Georges Sand, Drawings and watercolors, Belfond editions, 1992."

Dimensions :
- Height : 14 cm
- Width : 19,5 cm