La Terrasse, Café d'Harcourt
About this artwork
This painting depicts the terrace of the fashionable Café d'Harcourt, on the Boulevard St Michel, opposite the Sorbonne University in Paris. Fergusson immensely enjoyed being part of the 'café society.' An outgoing character, he was part of a group of Anglo-American artists who made the café the centre of their social and intellectual life. Fergusson has flattened the perspective in this painting, drawing attention to surface pattern. The use of flat, bright areas of colour in particular, the green shadows in the face of the man on the right of the painting shows the influence of Matisse and the fauvist painters.
Updated before 2020
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artist:John Duncan Fergusson (1874 - 1961) Scottish
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title:La Terrasse, Café d'Harcourt
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date created:About 1908 - 1909
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materials:Oil on canvas
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measurements:108.60 x 122.00 cm; Framed: 123.50 x 139.00 x 8.00 cm
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credit line:Private Collection on long term loan to the National Galleries of Scotland
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accession number:GML 1073
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John Duncan Fergusson
John Duncan Fergusson
'Scottish Colourist' John Duncan Fergusson was one of the most influential Scottish painters of the 20th century. Mostly self-taught, he moved to Paris in 1907, where he became a member of the city art circles to which artists such as Matisse and Picasso also belonged. The outbreak of the First...
