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A few years ago, I saw an exhibition at the China Oil Painting Institute, which is the personal collection of the famous collector Sun Peicang, in addition to the works of domestic masters such as Zhang Daqian, Xu Beihong, Wu Zuoren, etc., there are also a considerable number of works by Western oil painters, including a French painter Adrian Henri Tannook's "Portrait of a Woman", which may be the only work of Tannook that can be seen in China. At the exhibition, I also saw a French romantic painting master Delacroix's "Othello and Tess de Mona", and I remember that there was also a work by the realist master Courbet, which were purchased directly from France in those years, which were really precious.
Sun Peicang studied in France in the 20s of last century, and later served as a minister in France, and taught at many universities after returning to China.
Adrienne Henri Tannook, also translated as Adrienne Henri Tarus, was a French painter of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, born in Marseille in 1865 and died in Paris in 1923.
In 1878, at the age of 13, Tannook began to study painting at the Marseille Academy of Art and Design in his hometown of Marseille, until he graduated in 1886, and later entered the prestigious National Academy of Arts in Paris, where he became a student of the master Leon Bonat, during which his work was selected for the official salon exhibition and won the gold medal of the World Exhibition.
Most of Tannook's subjects are portraits of people in the interior, but there are also some works that depict scenes of rural life. His creative style is typical of the neoclassical school, accurate shapes, rich and vivid colors, and the people and objects in the paintings are full of full expressions and vivid expressions, fully showing the romantic life of the French in the early 20th century.
The work below is titled "Giving Your Daughter"
In the background is a very luxurious room, a man who looks like a nobleman is lying on the sofa, an old man brings his daughter into the room, he wants to give his daughter to the noble, the daughter is of course very reluctant, and covers her face with her hands in pain. The arrogance of the nobles, the helplessness of the old man, and the sadness of the girl are vividly expressed.
In Tannook's work, the impressionism and oriental atmosphere that prevailed in Paris at that time can also be clearly seen, which can be expressed in his use of light and the costumes of his figures, as well as in the decoration of the interior environment.
It can be seen that Tannook is a painter who has his own creative style and can follow fashion, his works are based on sketching materials, truly showing the life of French cities and villages at that time that was both traditional and fashionable, some critics called Tannook "aristocratic painter", in fact, many of his works are to express the lives of people at the bottom.