Jacques-Emile BLANCHE (1861-1942)

STILL-LIFE: FISH ON A SILVER PLATE, 1908
Initialled and dated: JEB, 1908, black paint, lower right
Oil on canvas, 84 x 52 cm
H.1981/11

Provenance
Sally Hunter
Purchased with the assistance of the Victoria & Albert Museum Purchase Grant Fund, 1981.

BRIGHTON FRONT, 1928
Signed: Je. Bl, green paint, lower left, Je. Blanche, brown paint, lower right
Oil on board, 28.5 x 45 cm
000750

Exhibited
London, Browse and Darby,British and French Paintings and Drawings, 1987, no. 3.
Brighton Museum,Brighton Revealed, 1995-96, no. 118.

Provenance
Browse and Darby
Purchased with the assistance of the MGC/V&A Purchase Grant Fund, 1987.

This is a sketch for a larger painting of the same title.

BLACK ROCK, BRIGHTON, 1938
Signed and dated: J. E. Blanche/Brighton 1938, black paint, lower right
Oil on canvas, 61 x 96.5 cm
000020

Exhibited
Birmingham City Art Gallery,The Early Years of the New English Art Club 1886-1918, 1952, no.3.
Chichester, Pallant House,Strands and Shorelines, 1985.
Brighton Art Gallery,One View to Another, 1993.
Brighton Art Gallery,Brighton Revealed, 1995-96, no. 119.

Provenance
Redfern Gallery
Purchased with the assistance of the National Art Collections Fund, 1943.

Although the painting is dated 1938, it was mostly done around 1922.  The date appears to be a later addition which might have been added when the painting was finally completed.