Lot 401
  • 401

Armand Seguin

Estimate
25,000 - 35,000 USD
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Description

  • Armand Seguin
  • Paysage Breton
  • Signed A. Seguin and dated 1901 (lower right)
  • Watercolor and pen and ink on paper
  • Image: 6 7/8 by 14 5/8 in.
  • 17.4 by 37.1 cm

Provenance

Ambroise Vollard, Paris
Acquired in Paris in 1961

Exhibited

Saint-Denis, Musée Municipal d'Histoire et d'Art, La Bretagne, 1961, no. 56
New Haven, Yale University Art Gallery, Neo-Impressionists and Nabis, 1965, no. 41
London, The Tate Gallery, Gauguin and the Pont-Aven Group, 1966, no. 170
Zurich, Kunsthaus, Pont-Aven: Gauguin und sein Kretis in der Bretagne, 1966, no. 235
New York, Spencer A. Samuels & Company, Ltd., Symbolists, 1970, no. 159
Maryland, University of Maryland Art Gallery; Louisville, J.B. Speed Art Museum & Ann Arbor, University of Michigan Museum of Art,  From Delacroix to Cézanne: French Watercolor Landscapes of the Nineteenth Century, 1977-78, no. 148
Pont-Aven, Musée de Pont-Aven, Armand Seguin, 1989

Literature

Wladyslawa Jaworska, Paul Gauguin et L'Ecole de Pont-Aven, Neuchâtel, 1971, illustrated p. 148
Armand Seguin 1896-1903 (exhibition catalogue), Credit Muteul De Bretagne, Musée Pont-Aven, France, 1989, no.18, illustrated pp. 24-25

Condition

The overall dimensions of the entire sheet are 10 1/4 by 18 5/8 in. The sheet has been reinforced with paper strips along the perimeter on the verso. There is a faint mat stain at the extreme perimeter of the sheet which is well outside the image area. Elsewhere on the sheet there is some uneven time darkening as well as some areas of scattered foxing, but these too are outside of image area. Overall the work is in good condition.
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