Lot 37
  • 37

Jacques-Émile Blanche

Estimate
4,000 - 6,000 AUD
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Description

  • Jacques-Émile Blanche
  • LA PROMENADE SUR LA PLAGE DE DIEPPE
  • Signed with initials (lower left); signed and dated J. E. Blanche 1937 on reverse
  • Oil on cardboard
  • 21 by 32.3cm

Provenance

Rt. Hon. Lady Waltson
Impressionist, modern and contemporary paintings and drawings, Sotheby's, London, 14 October 1992, lot 289
Lance Crawford, Melbourne
Purchased from the above in 1993

Condition

Overall work is in good condition. UV examination reveals some flaring in fence and below steps (lower left).
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Catalogue Note

The French painter Jacques-Emile Blanche was a friend of the Impressionists Manet, Degas and Renoir.  He also became close to the Anglo-Australian Charles Conder after they shared a holiday together at Dieppe in the summer of 1895; his 1904 portrait of Conder is in the Tate collection, while Blanche appears in Conder's Landscape with figures (lot XX in this catalogue).

The present work is a late view of one of Blanche's favourite subjects - the beach, promenade and bathing boxes at Dieppe - painted in the artist's characteristic spotty, impressionist brushwork and high-key palette.