Eugène Boudin

Estimate

80,000 - 120,000 GBP

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Description

Eugène Louis Boudin
PÊCHEURS ET VOILIERS DEVANT TROUVILLE
signed E. Boudin and dated 92 (lower left)
oil on canvas
40.6 by 55.6cm., 16 by 21 7/8 in.

Provenance

Captain John Audley Harvey, London (sale: Christie's, London, 30th March 1928, lot 74)
Eric Turk, London
Mrs Arthur L. Simon, United Kingdom
Private Collection
Sale: Christie's, London, 2nd December 1996, lot 19
Sale: Christie's, London, 7th December 1999, lot 117
Purchased at the above sale by the present owner

Exhibited

London, Marlborough Fine Art, Eugène Boudin, 1824-1898, 1958, no. 64

Literature

Robert Schmit, Eugène Boudin 1824-1898, Paris, 1973, vol. III, no. 2943, illustrated p. 138
Robert & Manuel Schmit, Eugène Boudin 1824-1898, Deuxième Supplément, Paris, 1993, no. 2943, additional cataloguing p. 236

Condition

The canvas is not lined. There is a 1cm. square spot of retouching to the centre left, a 5cm. line of retouching to the upper right edge and a 4cm. line to the lower centre, all visible under UV light. This work is in good condition. Colours: Fairly accurate, the colours are livelier in the original.
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Catalogue Note

Painted in 1892, this lively seascape is a fine example of Boudin's most celebrated oeuvre. A close friend of Claude Monet, he exhibited at the first Impressionist Exhibition in 1874 and was considered one of the first and best plein air painters. Initially the owner of a painter's stationery shop frequented by Monet, Boudin never considered himself a radical, avant-garde artist. Yet in the present work the swift, spontaneous brushwork and challenging Impressionist style were as modern as anyone else that exhibited in that pivotal 1874 Salon des Independents exhibition.

Fig. 1, Eugène Boudin painting on the beach, 1896