Lot 119
  • 119

Henri le Sidaner

Estimate
10,000 - 15,000 GBP
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Description

  • Henri Le Sidaner
  • LE PONT, QUIMPER
  • signed Le Sidaner (lower left)
  • oil on panel
  • 14.5 by 20cm., 5 3/4 by 7 7/8 in.

Provenance

Louis Le Sidaner, Paris (the artist's son)
Sale: Christie's, London, 1st December 1972, lot 272
Cyril Caplan, United Kingdom (sale: Sotheby's, London, 29th June 1978, lot 262)
Private Collection (acquired at the above sale)
Kunsthandel M. L. de Boer, Amsterdam
Acquired from the above by the family of the present owner in October 1978

Exhibited

Saint-Denis, Musée d'Art et d'Histoire de Saint-Denis, La Bretagne, 1961, no. 92
London, Roland, Browse & Delbanco, Henri Le Sidaner, Lui Shou Kwan, 1964, no. 55

Literature

Yann Farinaux-Le Sidaner, Le Sidaner, L'œuvre peint et gravé, Milan, 1989, no. 1149, illustrated p. 364

Condition

The panel is sound and there appear to be no signs of retouching visible under UV light. Apart from a pinhead-sized area of paint loss and associated minor specks of paint loss towards the centre of the lower edge, this work is in very good condition.
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