Jean Charlot
Hand Holding Bouquet1924

Not on view

Oil painting of a large bouquet of roses in pink, salmon, and crimson, held by two hands — one in a mauve sleeve with lace cuff, one with brown skin — against a dark, spotted background

Artist or Maker: Jean Charlot
France, active Mexico, New York, and Hawaii, 1898-1979
Title: Hand Holding Bouquet
Date Made: 1924
Medium: Oil on canvas
Dimensions: 14 × 10 3/4 in. (35.56 × 27.30 cm)
Credit Line: The Bernard and Edith Lewin Collection of Mexican Art
Accession Number: AC1997.LWN.191
Classification: Paintings
Collecting Area: Latin American Art
Curatorial Notes: Jean Charlot was born in Paris and spent most of the 1920s living in Mexico, where he became immersed in the local art scene and contributed to the emerging mural movement. It was there that he first met photographer Edward Weston (18861958) in 1923, and they soon became close friends. As Weston was preparing to leave Mexico in 1924, the two men exchanged artworks. Weston detailed the trade in his diary: “Last evening I tried to select one of his paintings. It was difficult! Hardly one that I could not have been happy with . . . Finally I took the hand of an Indian girl holding a bouquet of flowers.”

For his part, Charlot received two photographs by Weston after much deliberation. By the end of the 1920s, both artists had left Mexico but remained in close contact. One of their encounters is recorded in a 1939 photograph in LACMA’s collection (46.23.31), which Weston took while Charlot and his new wife Zohmah (they had married just days earlier) were visiting the photographer in Carmel, California.

Rachel Kaplan

2024
Copyright: © The Jean Charlot Estate LLC / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

Jean Charlot
Hand Holding Bouquet1924

Not on view

Artist or Maker: Jean Charlot
France, active Mexico, New York, and Hawaii, 1898-1979
Title: Hand Holding Bouquet
Date Made: 1924
Medium: Oil on canvas
Dimensions: 14 × 10 3/4 in. (35.56 × 27.30 cm)
Credit Line: The Bernard and Edith Lewin Collection of Mexican Art
Accession Number: AC1997.LWN.191
Classification: Paintings
Collecting Area: Latin American Art
Curatorial Notes: Jean Charlot was born in Paris and spent most of the 1920s living in Mexico, where he became immersed in the local art scene and contributed to the emerging mural movement. It was there that he first met photographer Edward Weston (18861958) in 1923, and they soon became close friends. As Weston was preparing to leave Mexico in 1924, the two men exchanged artworks. Weston detailed the trade in his diary: “Last evening I tried to select one of his paintings. It was difficult! Hardly one that I could not have been happy with . . . Finally I took the hand of an Indian girl holding a bouquet of flowers.”

For his part, Charlot received two photographs by Weston after much deliberation. By the end of the 1920s, both artists had left Mexico but remained in close contact. One of their encounters is recorded in a 1939 photograph in LACMA’s collection (46.23.31), which Weston took while Charlot and his new wife Zohmah (they had married just days earlier) were visiting the photographer in Carmel, California.

Rachel Kaplan

2024