Matinee de Septembre (or September Morn) was painted by the FrenchartistPaul Emile Chabas (1869-1937) over three summers, ending in 1912, and won a medal in a Paris art show that year but did not create any sensation.
Paul Chabas's September Morn has been labeld as "kitsch" by critics who think it lacks interesting artistic features: contrast, coordinated lines, and a worthy subject, instead the painting rather leans towards the melodramatic. Its fame is more derived from scandal than from anything else.
The next year, when it was in a window of an art gallery in Manhattan, New York (USA), it caught the attention of Anthony Comstock (1844-1915), a self-appointed crusader against "vice" at the time whose campaign to have the "dirty picture" suppressed made it famous. The public relations pioneer Harry Reichenbach claimed to have brought it to Comstock's attention as a contract job for the targeted gallery.
Lithograph copies of the artwork were popularly sold for over a decade, extending the success that followed the scandal.
Ultimately, the painting would be labelled as—and is often cited as an example of—kitsch. Copies of the image are still sold on postcards, etc...
Still today, for whatever reason, September Morn probably belongs more to the collective unconscious than any other of the images Paul Chabas created.
Matinee de Septembre (or SeptemberMorn) was painted by the French artist Paul Emile Chabas (1869-1937) over three summers, ending in 1912, and won a medal in a Paris art show that year but did not create any sensation.
Paul Chabas's SeptemberMorn has been labeld as "kitsch" by critics who think it lacks interesting artistic features: contrast, coordinated lines, and a worthy subject, instead the painting rather leans towards the melodramatic.
Still today, for whatever reason, SeptemberMorn probably belongs more to the collective unconscious than any other of the images Paul Chabas created.
SeptemberMorn (below, left) is one of the very rare Hybrid Teas from the turn of the Century.
Today, it is a Hybrid Tea that surpasses the best of the English Roses with its beauty and fragrance." The painting after which 'SeptemberMorn' is named can been seen on the web by clicking on the link "SeptemberMorn".
'SeptemberMorn' is best grown as a budded shrub, as it apparently underperforms when grown on its own roots.
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