Frédéric Bazille: Finish

Frédéric Bazille was French painter. Explore interesting quotes on finish.
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“Finally.... I will have finished the paintings for my uncle. I have completely reworked them since my last letter [to his mother, 5 May 1865]; originally I had included a mass of details, which, from the distance they were intended to be viewed, had a very bad effect. I have worked at breakneck speed for two weeks, and now I am rather pleased, at least with one of them.”

Frédéric Bazille

Quote from Bazille's letter to his mother, c. 18/25 August, 1865; as cited in Impressionnism, Gary Tinterow, Henri Loyrette; Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1994, p. 329
1861 - 1865

Painting , Speed

“The big classical compositions are finished; an ordinary view of daily life would be much more interesting.”

Frédéric Bazille

Quote by Jean Renoir, in: Renoir my father, p. 96; as quoted in The private lives of the Impressionists, Sue Roe, Harpen Collins Publishers, New York 2006, p. 24

a remark of Bazille, in the winter of 1862 – 63 during a walk with Renoir

the two painters passed a crying baby while its nurse was flirting with a soldier
1861 - 1865

Life

“I have almost finished a large landscape”

Frédéric Bazille

painting ' Landscape by the Lez River
[around Montpellier https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Frederic_Bazille_Paysage_au_bord_du_Lez.jpg.. ..I am completely alone on the country; my cousins and my brother are at the resort. My father and mother are living in town; this solitude pleases me enormously; it makes me work a lot and read a lot.
In a letter to fr:Edmond Maitre, 2 August 1870; as quoted in Impressionnism, Gary Tinterow, Henri Loyrette; Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1994, p. 338
this work is Bazille's last painting and largest known landscape; he started it c. June 1870 and finished it 2 August, just before he left 16 August 1870, to join the third regiment of Zouaves; he died soon
1866 - 1870