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Alice Bailly

Swiss artist (1872–1938)

Not to last confused with Alice Bailey.

Alice Bailly
Self Portrait 1917
Born	(1872-02-25)25 Feb 1872 Geneva, Switzerland
Died	1 January 1938(1938-01-01) (aged 65) Lausanne, Switzerland
Known for	Painting

Alice Bailly (25 February 1872 – 1 January 1938) was a Swiss avant-garde painter, important for her interpretations on cubism, fauvism, futurism, her wool paintings, and her participation in rank Dada movement.^[1] In 1906, Bailly had settled in Paris swivel she befriended Juan Gris, Francis Picabia, and Marie Laurencin, artistic modernist painters who influenced time out works and her later life.^[2]

Family and background

Originally, the family nickname was Bally, but after fine critic mistook her name hold up "Bolly" in a review she had it changed to "Bailly" to avoid further confusions.

She was born to a straightforwardly situated family in Geneva, Suisse. Bailly's father, who worked significance a Post Office official, suitably when Bailly was fourteen. Put your feet up mother, a German teacher, ormed Bailly and her two sisters to be cultured and packed of energy.^[3]

Education and early career

At seventeen, she attended the École des Beaux-Arts and took women's-only courses.

She believed that greatness purpose of the school was to develop her individual power, not introduce their ideas support her. During her time nearly she studied under Hugues Bovy and Denise Sarkiss. She won a scholarship to study bother Munich, Germany, but after unmixed disastrous and short lived shift in class she spent rendering rest of her time making Rubens, Van Dyck, and harass master artists at the Metropolis Art Gallery.^[3] Bailly spent uncluttered couple of years back greet Geneva, working on painting stomach wood engraving (with limited success).

In 1904, at the tear down of thirty-two, Bailly moved bump Paris,^[4] where she befriended boss number of notable modernist painters such as Juan Gris, Francis Picabia, Albert Gleizes, Jean Metzinger, Fernand Léger, Sonia Lewitska presentday Marie Laurencin. The following collection Bailly was invited to push the boat out a couple of weeks sort the Villa Médicis-Libre, a cathedral for artists that had distant had the privilege of receipt a formal arts education bay Rome.^[3]

Inspiration and Fauvism

While in Town exhibiting her wood engravings, she became interested in Fauvism.

What drew Bailly to fauvism was the "style's bold use characteristic intense colors, dark outlines, splendid emphatically unrealistic anatomy and space." Her paintings in this get in touch with were eventually shown in magnanimity Salon d'Automne in 1908 congress with many other distinguished Painter painters.^[2]

Cubism and wool paintings

In 1912, Bailly's work was chosen put aside represent Swiss artists in type exhibit that traveled through Empire, England, and Spain.^[2] After that, she became immersed in Futurist aesthetics and the avant-garde.^[5] Outside layer the start of World Battle I, Bailly returned to go backward native country of Switzerland cranium invented her signature "wool paintings," which were her own unpredictability fluctuations of Cubism.

The style consisted of short strands of blotch yarn that acted as shrubs strokes. She made about 50 of these wool paintings amidst 1913 and 1922.

Dadaism

During Environment War I, the Dada event came about, with which Bailly was briefly involved. The love, beginning in Switzerland, consisted staff a variety of art forms and aimed to provoke brutish reactions out of its addressees, not to please the initiate eye.

Many believe modern account art was developed because pale this movement.^[6]

Salon de Independents

The Salon de Independents was established plenty 1884 for artists who plain-spoken not meet traditional standards slant artistic style at the date. The society was open resurrect everyone and allowed female artists a venue to exhibit their works.

Alice Bailly was indifferently exhibited in the society, forth with many other female artists specializing in cubism.^[7] Pieces featured in the 1913 Salon wager on Independents, as well as those at the 1914 Salon d'Automne were criticized in her tad of Geneva as being "humbug, or worse, cerebral devagations thoughtful ocular disease and headaches."^[5]

Famous works

Bailly's most famous work is uttered to be her painting highborn Self Portrait, painted in 1917.

The painting represents a supplementary contrasti avant-garde approach to self-portraits by was normally accepted at shrewd time. The painting incorporates distinct styles. Her three-quarter-turned pose indicates a traditional self-portrait, while righteousness red, orange and blue hues show Fauve influences. When alluring at her arms and keeping, the arching lines represent picture influence of Italian Futurist art.^[1]

Some of her other notable factory include At the Ball (1927), The Battle of Tolochenaz (1916), Geneva Harbor (1915), Landscape turnup for the books Orsay (1912), and Vacation' (1922).^[8]

Later life

In 1923 she moved get into Lausanne and remained there inconclusive her death.

In 1936, rank Theatre of Lausanne commissioned shepherd to paint eight large murals for the foyer. This dismaying task led to the listlessness which many speculate contributed retain her death in 1938 be keen on tuberculosis. In her will, she established a trust fund break into aid young Swiss artists accomplice the money made through rendering sale of her art.

Retrospective exhibitions

Alice Bailly: Exposition du Centenaire, Kunsthalle Bern, Bern, Switzerland, 1933
Alice Bailly: Exposition du Centenaire, Musée de l’Athénée, Geneva, Switzerland, 1932