Front view
Inv. No.S-0205
ArtistLucien Clergueborn 1934 in Francedied 2014 in Nimes, France
Title

"Le Marais d’Arles"


the marsh of Arles

Year1960, vintage
Medium

gelatin silver print mounted on cardboard

Dimensions50 x 59 cm
Edition1/20
Signature

titled, stamped and signed (ink), artist stamp and "ref.2141" on verso; signed (engraved) on lower right recto

Comment

In the swamps of Arles stretches out the land of the beyond. It is this Secret Camargue that the artist reveals to us through a light that he makes his own. Lucien Clergue practises reading in these landscapes the signs that make up the rice paddies, swamp seaweed, triumphant maize leaves, vines flooded in winter or the sleeping pond whose somewhat mystic nature he knows how to enumerate. In a sky washed by the wind, the process of organic life is born in every instant and organises itself in a winegrower’s delirium. Between the wanderings of the Rhone we find the Vaccares, the Delta and its silt, the beauty of the reeds, the expanses of salt, the violence of the cracked earth — generous nature on which the artist feeds, out of sight of the common eye. True poetry in its deepest sense is here installed.
(Atelier Lucien Clergue)

S-0205, "Le Marais d’Arles"
Lucien Clergue, "Le Marais d’Arles", 1960
S-0205, Front view
© Atelier Lucien Clergue
S-0205, Back view
Lucien Clergue, "Le Marais d’Arles", 1960
S-0205, Back view
S-0232, Lucien Clergue, "Le Marais d’Arles", 1961
Lucien Clergue, "Le Marais d’Arles", 1961
more infoS-0232, Front view
© Atelier Lucien Clergue