Alon Zakaim Fine Art

Jean Hippolyte Marchand was born in Paris in 1883, and worked throughout his life as a painter, printmaker, and illustrator. He studied under Léon Bonnat and Luc Olivier Merson at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris from 1902 to 1906, during which time he met Segonzac, Boussingault and L. A. Moreau. He was also taught for a short period in 1909 by the Post-Impressionist painter Henri Martin at the Académie Vitti. From 1908 onwards he exhibited regularly at the Salon d’Automne and the Salon des Indépendants.

Marchand’s painting Still Life with Bananas was featured in the famous Post-Impressionist exhibition held by Roger Fry at the Grafton Galleries, London in 1910, and in the years that followed his work was bought and acclaimed by Fry and the British art critic and curator Clive Bell, as well as by several of their friends including St. John and Mary Hutchinson, Percy Moore Turner, and Hilton Young. He was also the first modern artist, along with Renoir, to be bought by Samuel Courtauld.

Marchand experimented between 1911 and 1912 with a Cubist style and also produced some works clearly influenced by Futurism, which culminated in the exhibition of some of his works in 1912 at the Salon de la Section d'Or. However, his subsequent work showed a greater affinity with that of Cézanne and with the revival of classicism. His later works adopted an essentially naturalistic style, which is evident in both his landscape paintings, such as Landscape at Vence, and figurative studies such as Baigneuse.

His artistic output was largely interrupted during the First World War, although his first solo exhibition was held at the Carfax Gallery, London, in 1915. After seeing this show, Clive Bell stated that ‘No living painter is more purely concerned with the creation of form and the emotional significance of shapes and colours than Marchand.’

Marchand visited Syria and the Middle East in 1928, where he painted decorative panels for the Syrian pavilion at the Colonial Exhibition at Vincennes in 1931.

In addition to painting, Marchand also made woodcut illustrations for Paul Claudel's book, Le Chemin de la Croix, published by the Librairie de l'Art catholique in 1918 and for Valery's Le Serpent in 1927.

Many of Marchand’s works are featured in public collections including Albertina, Vienna, Musée d’Art Moderne, Paris, Musée des Beaux Arts, Brussels, and Tate Gallery, London.

Jean Hippolyte Marchand died in Paris in 1941.

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