ID 717748
Lot 56 | EUGÈNE BOUDIN (1824-1898)
Estimate value
£ 1 000 000 – 1 500 000
La plage de Trouville
signed, dated and inscribed ‘E. Boudin- Trouville 1863.’ (lower left)
oil on panel
13 3⁄4 x 22 7⁄8 in. (34.8 x 58 cm.)
Painted in 1863
Provenance
Auguste Guerquin, Metz, by whom commissioned from the artist.
Wildenstein & Co., Paris & New York, by 1976.
Mr Julien Cornell, New York, by whom acquired from the above in 1977; sale, Sotheby Parke Bernet, New York, 1 November 1978, lot 11.
The Lefevre Gallery [Alex Reid & Lefevre], London (no. 9139) & Acquavella Galleries, New York, by whom acquired at the above sale.
Acquired from the above by the present owner on 14 October 1980.
Literature
R. Schmit, Eugène Boudin, vol. I, Paris, 1973, no. 272, p. 87 (illustrated; with incorrect medium).
Art at Auction, The Year at Sotheby Parke Bernet, 1978-79, New York, 1979, p. 94 (illustrated).
Apollo, no. 213, London, November 1979, no. 3.
R. Schmit, Eugène Boudin, Premier supplément, Paris, 1984, no. 272, p. 135.
Exhibited
London, The Lefevre Gallery, A Group of French Paintings of the XIX and XX Centuries, November 1954 (ex. cat).
New York, Wildenstein & Co., Scenes of France, September - October 1976 (no cat.).
London, The Lefevre Gallery, An Exhibition of Important XIX & XX Century Paintings, November - December 1979, no. 2, p. 8 (illustrated p. 9; illustrated again on the cover).
Los Angeles, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, on loan, 1985-1986.
Los Angeles, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Monet to Matisse: French Art in Southern California Collections, June - August 1991, p. 27 (illustrated).
Glasgow, Glasgow Museums, The Burrell Collection, Boudin at Trouville, November 1992 - February 1993, no. 26, pp. 62 & 67 (illustrated p. 62; with incorrect medium); this exhibition later travelled to London, Courtauld Institute Galleries, March - May 1993.
Los Angeles, The J. Paul Getty Museum, on long term loan, 1999-2003.
Artist: | Eugène Boudin (1824 - 1898) |
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Applied technique: | Oil, Painted |
Medium: | Canvas, Textile |
Art style: | Impressionism |
Genre: | Marine art |
Place of origin: | Western Europe, France, Europe |
Artist: | Eugène Boudin (1824 - 1898) |
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Applied technique: | Oil, Painted |
Medium: | Canvas, Textile |
Art style: | Impressionism |
Genre: | Marine art |
Place of origin: | Western Europe, France, Europe |
Address of auction |
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