ANSELME BOIX-VIVES (France, 1899-1969) THE LOVERS Gouache on Isorel Gouache on masonite 71,5 X 98 CM - 28 1/8 X 38 5/8 IN. Mr Jean-Dominique Jacquemond has confirmed the authenticity of this work. A certificate of authenticity dated 22 January 2024 will be given to the buyer. PROVENANCE Galerie Schloß Remseck, Ludwigsburg. Private collection, Germany. "Initially, Boix-Vives favoured gouache, a technique which he found less intimidating than oil and which he mastered immediately, following the advice of his son Michel, but treating it in a very personal way, as Jean-Pierre Bouvet points out in his preface to the retrospective held at the Musée de Laval in 1971: "The colours, flat, are brought down by the glazes, a paradox for gouaches but giving this particular distinction to the atmosphere of the painting...". Using bright colours straight from the tube, the subjects, often centred, are as if immobilised in a more or less tightly meshed net, covering the entire painted surface. Human or animal life immobilised in this coloured trap". Jean-Dominique Jacquemond, Anselme Boix-Vives, cat. exhibition, Paris: Centre Vendôme pour les arts plastiques/La Différence, 1990, p. 15.