Mehmet Pesen
Seaside Café
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 40 × 30 cm
- Viewing
- At the showroom — by appointment
A seaside promenade: tables ranged beneath a kiosk and umbrellas with orange awnings, a single broad-shaded tree, small figures walking among islands of lawn, flower stalls, and beyond them the blue sea with the silhouette of the far shore. The scene is worked with the schematic, two-dimensional construction inherited from the miniature tradition and its meticulous small figures; the composition is framed by an ornamental border of golden interlace on a blue ground suggestive of marbled paper.
About the Artist
Mehmet Pesen (1923, Istanbul – 2012, Istanbul) graduated in 1948 from the Higher Department of Painting at the State Academy of Fine Arts, trained in the studio of Bedri Rahmi Eyüboğlu; he was among the members of the "Group of Ten", formed in 1947 by Eyüboğlu's students. Turning in the 1950s towards a semi-abstract and ornamental language, from 1975 onward he took up the art of the miniature, carrying the everyday life of the people of Anatolia and views of Istanbul onto canvas through the schematic, two-dimensional construction of miniature painting. He taught drawing and painting for many years at Haydarpaşa High School; his works are held in the collection of the İzmir Museum of Painting and Sculpture.
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