Curatorial Narrative La leon de natation ; Costume et chale, pour le bain by Fernand Simon exists at the cusp of Art Deco’s flowering in France during the 1920s. Executed with precision and a linear quality, the painting’s visual language eschews the expressive brushstrokes that characterized earlier modernist endeavors in favor of a more mechanical, almost industrial aesthetic.The artist’s employment of black and white as primary colors imbues the composition with an unyielding sense of structure, while the judicious inclusion of purple and green injects a modicum of vibrancy. The resultant chromatic structure presents itself to the viewer as a finely calibrated balancing act between opposing forces: order and ornamentation.In its original iteration, Simon’s painting exists at an intriguing intersection of two design styles that would come to define the era Art Deco and Modernist. As such, it occupies a distinct position within th
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