Jeannot sitting in a deck chair

1917

This transition year Beer paints/sketches the model Jeannot sitting in a deck chair, a very delicate picture (the model seems to be levitating in the air and the face is enveloped in blue shades, details around her are merely sketched) confirming that he is about to abandon the impressionist way of expressing himself. Evolving with new techniques and forms is partly out of artistic curiosity, but Beer also feels the profound necessity to move on. Beginning in 1917 with a fresh look upon reality, he becomes cubist the year after. For him it is not a question of being against nature (he is no futurist), it represents essentially a manner to apprehend nature differently.