Mela (Maria Melania) Muter (Mutermilch) (1876 - 1967)
Motherhood/ Maternité, c. 1924
Oil on canvas
130 x 97 cm
Private collection
Was sold for 1,050,000 PLN on March 2022
The theme of motherhood returned to the painter's work many times. Her career begins with the author's Breton episode and the composition "Sad Country" (1906). More than once, Muter emphasized the miserable expression of their existence in the images of mothers and children. Regardless, she often displayed tenderness between them. More on this painting
Mela Muter is the pseudonym used by Maria Melania Mutermilch (April 26, 1876 – May 14, 1967). She lived most of her life in France. Muter's painting career began to flourish after she moved to Paris from Poland in 1901 at the age of twenty-five. Before World War I, Muter's painting practice aligned itself with the Naturalism movement; her signature works containing vivid hues and strong brush strokes. Muter gained swift popularity in Paris and within five years of her residency in the city, had already begun showing her works. Muter received French citizenship in 1927. After the breakout of WWII Muter fled to Avignon for safety during the Nazi occupation. After the war, Muter returned to Paris where she worked and resided until her death in 1967.
In the early ages of Muter's work, she could be classified with the post-impressionists due to the pattern and application of her paint. In style and application of paint, Vincent Van Gogh can be seen as a clear influence on Muter's earlier work. By her early thirties, Muter's painting style was distinguished with heavy brushstrokes that layered paint around the faces and hands of the people she painted to signify areas of importance. In her full adulthood, Muter's work had ties with the expressionist movement, marked by a brighter color palette and more pointed compositions, often leaving areas of the canvas bare.
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