André LHOTE 1885 - 1962
Le jugement de Pâris/ The judgment of Paris, c. 1928
Gouache on paper
28,2 x 47 cm
Private collection
THE JUDGEMENT OF PARIS was a contest
between the three most beautiful goddesses of Olympos--Aphrodite, Hera and
Athena--for the prize of a golden apple addressed "To the Fairest."
The story began with the wedding of Peleus and
Thetis which all the gods had been invited to attend except for Eris, goddess
of discord. When Eris appeared at the festivities she was turned away and in
her anger cast the golden apple amongst the assembled goddesses addressed
"To the Fairest." Three goddesses laid claim to the apple--Aphrodite,
Hera and Athena. Zeus was asked to mediate and he commanded Hermes to lead the
three goddesses to Paris of Troy to decide the issue. The three goddesses
appearing before the shepherd prince, each offering him gifts for favour. He
chose Aphrodite, swayed by her promise to bestow upon him Helene, the most
beautiful woman, for wife. The subsequent abduction of Helene led directly to
the Trojan War and the fall of the city. More on The judgment of Paris
André Lhote (5 July 1885 – 24 January 1962) was
a French Cubist painter of figure subjects, portraits, landscapes and still
life. He was also very active and influential as a teacher and writer on art.
Lhote was
born in Bordeaux and learned wood carving and sculpture from the age of 12,
when his father apprenticed him to a local furniture maker to be trained as a
sculptor in wood. He enrolled at the École des Beaux-Arts in Bordeaux in 1898
and studied decorative sculpture until 1904. Whilst there, he began to
paint in his spare time. He was influenced by Gauguin and Cézanne and held his
first one-man exhibition at the Galerie Druet in 1910, four years after he had
moved to Paris.
After
initially working in a Fauvist style, Lhote shifted towards Cubism and started
exhibiting at the Salon de la Section d'Or. He was alongside some of the
fathers of modern art, including Gleizes, Villon, Duchamp, Metzinger, Picabia
and La Fresnaye.
Lhote
taught at the Académie Notre-Dame des Champs from 1918 to 1920, and later
taught at other Paris art schools—including the Académie de la Grande Chaumière
and his own school, which he founded in Montparnasse in 1922.
Lhote lectured extensively in France and other countries.
In Egypt Lhote worked with Effat Nagy using Egyptian archaeology as subject
matter for their work. His work was rewarded with the Grand Prix National de
Peinture for 1955, and the UNESCO commission for sculpture appointed Lhote
president of the International Association of Painters, Engravers and
Sculptors. More André
Lhote
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