Lot 390
  • 390

Jean-Baptiste-Armand Guillaumin

Estimate
100,000 - 150,000 USD
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Description

  • Jean-Baptiste-Armand Guillaumin
  • Les Ruines du château de crozant
  • Signed Guillaumin (lower left)
  • Oil on canvas
  • 29 by 39 1/2 in.
  • 74 by 100 cm

Provenance

Galerie Durand-Ruel, Paris
Lucien Schloss, Paris
Peter Findlay, New York
Private Collection, France

Exhibited

Geneva, Musée du Petit Palais, Guillaumin, 1992, no. 32, illustrated in color in the catalogue
Toulouse, Musée Paul Dupuy & Clermont Ferrand, Musée des Beaux Arts, Armand Guillaumin l'impressionniste, ami de Cézanne et de Van Gogh, 1993 - 1995, no. 32, illustrated in the catalogue
Cologne, Wallraf-Richartz Museum, Vom Spiel der farbe Armand Guillaumin ein wergessener Impressionist, 1996, no. G68, illustrated in the catalogue
Lausanne, Fondation de l'Hermitage, Armand Guillaumin, un maitre de l'impressionnisme, 1997, no. 62, illustrated in the catalogue
Belfort, Musée d'Art et d'histoire, Armand Guillaumin de la lumière à la couleur, 1997, no. 35, illustrated in the catalogue
Turin, Palazzo Bricheriaso, l'Impressionismo di Guillaumin, 2003 - 2007, p. 105, illustrated in color in the catalogue

Literature

Georges Serret & Dominique Fabiani, Armand Guillaumin, Catalogue raisonné de l'oeuvre peint, Paris, 1971, no. 386, illustrated
Christopher Gray, Armand Guillaumin, Chester, Connecticut, 1991, p. 178

Condition

Work is in very good condition. Canvas is unlined. Under UV light: a few pin-head sized dots in the upper right sky and lower right foreground. Some original pigments also fluoresce. The surface retains a very rich impasto.
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