Lot no. 259
Maria Mela Muter
Paysage provençale
Öl auf Leinwand. 65 x 81 cm. Gerahmt. Unten rechts schwarz signiert 'Muter'.
Provenienz
Loudmer, Paris (1993); Privatbesitz Belgien
„Die Farbe sollte man nicht zum Hauptgegenstand der Betrachtung machen, man sollte sie nur sanft mit dem Auge streicheln. Der Form sollte die ganze Aufmerksamkeit gewidmet sein. Man muß eine Verbindung herstellen zwischen sich und der Form: einig werden mit ihr.“ (Mela Muter, zit. nach Ausst. Kat. Mela Muter. Retrospektiv-Ausstellung, Galerie Gmurzynska, Köln 1967, o. S.).
Diese überlieferte „Randbemerkung“ (so der Kölner Ausstellungskatalog) von Mela Muter über das Streben der eigenen Malerei erschließt sich dem Betrachter unserer provençalischen Landschaft unmittelbar. Mit fein temperierter Tonalität gelingt es Muter, die als Malerin schon zu Lebzeiten große Erfolge in Europa und den USA feierte, die milde Atmosphäre des Ortes auf die Leinwand zu übertragen. Neben einigen farbigen Konturierungen skizziert sie die Formen der Landschaft vielfach über umrisshafte Auslassungen in denen die bloße Leinwand sichtbar wird. Farblich kontrastiert sie das klingende Blau der Alpen am Horizont mit dem warmen Braun und Grün des Dorfes. Hierdurch erreicht Muter genau jene eingangs formulierte luftige Farbwirkung, die sich trotz kräftiger Grün, Braun- und Blautöne alles andere als laut darstellt und das Auge des Betrachters sanft berührt wie das südfranzösische Licht.
Maria Mela Muter
Paysage provençale
Oil on canvas. 65 x 81 cm. Framed. Signed 'Muter' in black lower right.
Provenance
Loudmer, Paris (1993); Private possession, Belgium
“Colour should not be made the primary object of consideration, the eye should only gently caress it. All attention should be devoted to form. You have to establish a connection between yourself and form: place yourself in agreement with it.” (Mela Muter, cited in exhib. cat. Mela Muter: Retrospektiv-Ausstellung, Galerie Gmurzynska, Cologne 1967, n. p.).
This “incidental comment” (as it is described in the Cologne exhibition catalogue) handed down from Mela Muter deals with the aims of her own painting and makes immediate sense for the viewer of our landscape from the Provence. Muter, whose painting had already celebrated major successes in Europe and the US during her own lifetime, has succeeded in using a finely tempered tonality to transfer the mild atmosphere of this little town on to the canvas. In addition to several contours added in colour, she has repeatedly sketched the forms of the landscape over outline-like blank spaces in which the bare canvas can be seen. She has established a chromatic contrast between the ringing blue of the Alps on the horizon and the warm brown and green of the village. In this way, Muter has achieved precisely the airy chromatic effect articulated at the outset: in spite of its bold shades of green, brown and blue, the image presents itself to viewers as anything but raucous and gently caresses their eye like the light of southern France.
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