Title:
Village of Villiers
Creator/Contributor:
Sugimoto, Henry
Date:
c. 1930
Identifier:
92.97.76
Format:
painting
oil on canvas
France
Inscription:
Signed in medium, bottom left corner: H. Sugimoto. Written on back, left center: Village of Villiers
Description:
Stretched and framed. A man with a stick walks away from the viewer down a lane lined with houses on the right and a gated
entrance at left. Two trees rise above the gate posts. The man wears a dark cap and shirt, brown pants and a white belt. The
Houses are white with red roofs. A woman wearing a red shawl over a white skirt carries a bucket and precedes the man further
down the lane. In the background greyish trees are visible under a grey sky.
Historical Note:
"Village of Villiers" and "French Willow Tree" were among some two hundred paintings that Sugimoto brought back from France.
It was a solid body of work, and he was invited to do a one-person exhibit at the California Palace of the Legion of Honor
in San Francisco soon after his return.
Subject:
France
Men
Women
Houses
Gates
Villages