A Slag Heap Near Marchiennes

nationality
French
birth-death
1858-1941
Creation date
Collection
European
Materials
oil on canvas
Dimensions
21 1/2 x 28 3/4 in.
Currently On View
Location
Robert H. & Ina M. Mohlman Gallery
Credit line
Gift of Mr. and Mrs. B. Gerald Cantor
Accession number
71.204.2
Provenance
Provenance Research is on-going at the Indianapolis Museum of Art, and information will be added to this record as research is completed. Please contact Annette Schlagenhauff, Assoc. Curator of Research, at aschlagenhauff@imamuseum.org with any questions.
Gallery Label

Luce's approach to this canvas, painted nearly a decade after La Rue Mouffetard, offers a more relaxed pointillist touch and a more intense social commentary. His sensitivity to labor issues is reflected in this scene of the Black Country of southern Belgium, an important mining and iron production center. The position of the workers, small and anonymous in the landscape, is dramatized by the silhouette of a woman straining to push a coal cart at the edge of the slag heap.

Luce's earlier commitment to the tight dots of pointillism and strict divisionist color theory is replaced here by freer brushwork and a more intuitive handling of color.

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