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PAUL SIGNAC (1863-1935)

Lot 25
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Lot 25 | PAUL SIGNAC (1863-1935)
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PAUL SIGNAC (1863-1935)

Les tours vertes, la Rochelle

signed and dated 'P. Signac 1913' (lower right)

oil on canvas

28 7/8 x 36 1/4 in. (73.3 x 92.2 cm.)

Painted in August-September 1913





Provenance

Galerie Bernheim-Jeune et Cie., Paris (1913).

Léonce Rosenberg, Paris (2 December 1913).

Clausen, Copenhagen (1920).

Leicester Galleries, London (circa 1920).

A. Metthey, Paris (1927).

Gaston Lévy, Paris (1933); his forced sale, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 15 December 1943, lot 97 (subject to a settlement agreement with the Gaston Lévy heirs in 2020).

Galerie Robert Schmit, Paris.

Galerie de l'Élysée (Alex Maguy), Paris.

Private collection, Europe (acquired from the above, 1953, then by descent); sale, Sotheby's, London, 22 June 2011, lot 3.

Acquired at the above sale by the late owners.



Literature

R. Allard, "Les arts plastiques, Paul Signac, Jules Flandrin, Vuillard, etc." in Les écrits français, vol. 2, no. 2, 5 January 1914, p. 159.

G. Coquiot, Cubistes, futuristes, passéistes, Essai sur la jeune peinture et la jeune sculpture, Paris, 1914, p. 168 (illustrated, possite p. 168).

G. Lévy, Pré-catalogue, circa 1932, p. 418 (illustrated).

"Les 70 ans de Paul Signac" in L’Humanité, 19 December 1933, p. 3 (illustrated).

M. Sandoz, ‘L’œuvre de Paul Signac à La Rochelle, Croix de Vie, Les Sables d’Olonne de 1911 à 1930" in Bulletin de la Société de l’histoire de l’art français, 8 January 1955, pp. 163-165, no. 2 (illustrated, opposite p. 170; titled La Rochelle, Thonier rentrant au port par matin ensoleillé).

M. Sandoz, "Le peintre Paul Signac à La Rochelle et sur les côtes charentaises et poitevines" in Cahiers de l’Ouest, September-October 1957, p. 15.

M. Sandoz, "Signac et Marquet à La Rochelle, Les Sables d’Olonne, La Chaume, Croix de Vie: Influence du site sur leur œuvre, 1911-1933" in Dibutade, no. IV, 1957, p. 12.

F. Cachin, Paul Signac: Catalogue raisonné de l’œuvre peint, Paris, 2000, p. 299, no. 495 (illustrated).



Exhibited

Paris, Galerie Bernheim-Jeune et Cie. and Düsseldorf, Galerie Alfred Flechtheim, Paul Signac, May-December 1913, no. 4.

Paris, Galerie Bernheim-Jeune et Cie., Paul Signac, May 1930, p. 4, no. 33 (illustrated).

Paris, Gazette des Beaux-Arts, Seurat et ses amis: La suite de l’impressionnisme, December 1933-January 1934, no. 92.

Paris, Petit-Palais, Paul Signac, February-March 1934, no. 29.

Tokyo, Matsuzakaya de Ginza and Nagoya, Matsuzakaya de Nagoya, Un siècle de paysages de France, 1870-1970, May-June 1980, no. 13 (illustrated in color).
Artist:Paul Signac (1863 - 1935)
Applied technique:Oil on canvas
Art style:Post-Impressionism
Genre:Marine art
Place of origin:Western Europe, France, Europe
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