Lot n° 170
Estimation :
400000 - 500000
EUR
Georges Seurat (1859-1891)
The Fisherman, ca. 1884
Oil on panel.
Inscribed "G. Seurat Exp 36" in blue pencil and on a beige label "15594, Seurat, Le Pêcheur, Dr. Charpentier".
16,2 x 25,2 cm
This painting can be found under the titles: Le Pêcheur (The Fisherman) or Balayeur (The Sweeper), but the way the man is holding his cane (the "lousse"), the two pointed piles at his side and the small amount of water in which he is standing suggest rather that he is a salt worker
This painting comes from the former collection of Doctor Albert Charpentier, a great collector who made several donations to the Louvre Museum, including, in 1937, Claude Monet's The Seine at Vétheuil, then again in 1951 and 1955: Edouard Manet's Eel and Red mullet, Degas' Blue dancers and Dancing class, Renoir's Reclining nude... to name but a few. On 30 March 1954, thirty-two works from his collection were sold at the Galerie Charpentier, including paintings and watercolours by Cézanne, Marquet, Matisse, Renoir, Vuillard...
A certificate from the Art Loss Register n° S00206349 dated 29 March 2021 will be given to the buyer.
Provenance :
- Former collection A. J. Honig
- Former collection Louis Vaumousse
- Former collection of Doctor Albert Charpentier
- Private collection
Exhibitions :
- 11 May-16 June 1934, Paris, Galeries Durand-Ruel, Quelques oeuvres importantes de Corot à Van Gogh, n° 57 of the catalogue under the title "Pêcheur, 1888".
- February 3-29, 1936, Paris, Galerie Paul Rosenberg, Georges Seurat, n°36 of the exhibition
- May 15-June 23, 1938, Paris, Galeries Durand-Ruel, Quelques Maîtres du 18e et du 19e siècle, n° 67 bis, outside the catalogue, under the title "Pêcheur".
Bibliography:
- Henri Dorra and John Rewald, Seurat, l'oeuvre peint - Biographie et Catalogue Critique, Les Beaux-Arts, Paris, 1959, described and reproduced on page 52 under No. 53 (with as title Balayeur and as date circa 1882)
- C. M. de Hauke, Seurat et son oeuvre - Paul Brame and C. M. de Hauke, Études et Documents publiés, Gründ, Paris, 1961, described and reproduced on pages 60 & 61 under n°99
- Fiorella Minervino, Tout l'oeuvre peint de Seurat, Flammarion, Paris, 1973, described and reproduced on page 98 under n°104 (with the title Balayeur and the date 1884)
- Catherine Grenier, Seurat, Catalogo completo dei dipinti, Cantini Editore, Florence, 1990, described and reproduced on page 67 under n°106, (with the title Uomo che spazza and the date 1884)
- François Blondel, Seurat catalogue raisonné des peintures, VisiMuZÉditions, 2020, described and reproduced under n°114 (with the title Balayeur and the date 1884)
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