Title:
L'Eglise de Tigeaux
Creator/Contributor:
Sugimoto, Henry
Date:
ca. 1932
Identifier:
92.97.78
Format:
painting
oil on burlap
France
Inscription:
Signed in medium, bottom left corner: Henry Sugimoto
Description:
Stretched and framed burlap. Image is of a church in rural France. A dirt pathway leads past the church at lower right, through
the trees that surround the buildings. A smaller structure appears in the background at right. The church is separated from
the path by a stone wall, at left, and has a slim steeple and gray roof. The other structures have red roofs. The sky is cloudy
and white with hints of blue.
Historical Note:
This work features a somewhat more controlled composition than the artist's other landscapes of the early period, and its
overall softness and smoother brushstrokes contribute to a less rough texture. The vertical format is also a departure from
Sugimoto's mostly horizontal landscapes of this period, such as Cluny Museum and Notre Dame Cathedral. Tigeaux is a small
village in east central France in the Seine and Marne River region, near the larger village of Rozay-en-Brie. Another untitled
Sugimoto landscape from the same period, featuring two nuns and a church, may depict L'Eglise de Rampillion in the same region;
however, no picture of the church in Tigeaux has been located so far.
Subject:
Tigeaux, France
Churches
Houses