

Curatorial Narrative Flix Bracquemond’s “Plateau de la soupire ovale” (1870) occupies a unique position within the artist’s oeuvre, situated at the cusp of his transition from the more figurative concerns of the 1860s to the increasing abstraction that would characterize his work in the late 1870s. The painting’s stark black and white palette, replete with subtle gradations of tone and texture, serves as a harbinger for the radical simplifications of style that would become hallmark of modernism.Bracquemond’s masterful deployment of linear brushwork imbues the painting with an unyielding sense of structure, one that invites the viewer to parse the intricate relationships between form and space. As such, “Plateau de la soupire ovale” assumes a meditative quality, its chromatic structure hinging upon the delicate interplay between dark and light.At approximately 62×44 inches, Bracquemond’s work takes on an imposing presence, one that
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