ARMAND POINT

(French, ca.1860-1932)

YOUNG WOMAN FEEDING UNICORN

Pastel on Card

39 x 35 Inches

Signed Lower Left ‘Armand Point’ and Dated ‘1928’

Framed in a 24 Carat Carved and Gilt Wood Frame by Steven Motyka

This important French painter was initially influenced by the Florentine school and, in particular, by Sandro Botticelli, whose works he studied closely.  Although at first preoccupied with reviving the styles of the XVth and XVIth centuries, Point later became an adherent of the Pre-Raphaelites.  His absorption of the fundamental linearity of both these styles found its greatest flowering in the late paintings of his Art Deco period.  A founder of the Salon de la Rose + Croix, Armand Point also exhibited from 1889 at the Salon de la Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts, where he won many medals and awards, including a travel scholarship in 1893.  We are pleased to offer this exceptionally animated mythological figural study from the artist’s late period. Rare and sought-after, Point's work does well at auction and the artist himself is comprehensively listed in all art-reference works.

Reference:

Benezit, Dictionnaire des Peintres, Vol.XII, p.86; Kunstlexicon, Thieme-Becker, Vol. XXVII, p.194; Mallett’s Index of Artists, p.347; Davenport’s Art Reference Guide, 2003/4 Edition, p.1615; et al.