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Estimate: $ 6,000 - $ 9,000
ROGER BRODERS (1883-1953)
ANTIBES. Circa 1928.
41 1/2x29 3/4 inches, 105 1/2x75 1/2 cm. Lucien Serre & Cie., Paris. Condition A: slight darkening at edges. Matted and framed.
This image, evoking the stylish, languid reminiscences of an F. Scott Fitzgerald story, is an uncanny example of art imitating life, imitating art. Fitzgerald and his wife, Zelda, stayed in this Riviera town in 1926, and it was during his time there that he began writing his novel Tender is the Night. The stylistic rendering of the main figures is too sophisticated to have been early in Broders' career. A visual chronology of Broders' works shows that he began to master the use of diffident characters with elongated bodies in 1928. Broders p. 91, Riviera 60, La Mer p. 116, Azur 144, Perry / Broders p. 27, Furness vol. 8 p. 97, Cote d'Azur p. 38.
