Lot 301
  • 301

Henry Moret

Estimate
70,000 - 90,000 USD
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Description

  • La Houle à Pen-men, Île de Groix
  • Signed Henry Moret and dated 1896 (lower right)
  • Oil on canvas
  • 28 7/8 by 36 3/8 in.
  • 73.3 by 92.2 cm

Provenance

Durand-Ruel, Paris (acquired from the artist on September 4, 1896)
Durand-Ruel, New  York (transferred from the above in 1897 and until 1949)
Private Collection, France (acquired at auction in Brest in 1981)

Exhibited

New York, Durand-Ruel, Paintings by Henry Moret, 1901, no. 3

Literature

Lydia Harambourg, Dictionnaire des peintres paysagistes français au XIXe siècle, Paris, 1985, illustrated p. 261 (with inverted image & titled Ouessant)
René Le Bihant & Yves Thierry, "Peintres des Écoles Bretonnes" in Antiquités, Beaux-arts, Curiosités (ABC), no. 199, May 1981, illustrated p. 21 (with inverted image & titled Ouessant)

Condition

Work is in excellent condition. Canvas is not lined. Surface retains a textured impasto. Under UV light: some original pigments fluoresce but no inpainting is apparent.
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