“Lucien Lévy-Dhurmer, ‘The Dream Painter’, was one of the leading painters of the Symbolist ideal at the turn of the century…La bourrasque, which translates as ‘The squall’, formed part of a strikingly ethereal series of portraits based upon the theme of the four seasons. The present work illustrates autumn and became the subject matter of much experimentation during the late 1890s, resulting in a painting under this title being exhibited twice in Paris in 1896, first at the Galerie Georges Petit (no. 3) and later at the Salon (no. 1261). The present pastel is perhaps one of the artist’s most strikingly beautiful examples. The girl’s windswept hair falls in wisps upon her face and the vibrant, other-worldly colours instantly transport the viewer from the seasons in this world to those of another.”

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