Lot 452
  • 452

EUGÈNE BOUDIN | Les Bords de la Touques

Estimate
50,000 - 70,000 USD
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Description

  • Studio of Eugène Boudin
  • Les Bords de la Touques
  • Signed E. Boudin and dated -85- (lower left)
  • Oil on canvas
  • 15 3/4 by 25 3/4 in.
  • 40 by 65.4 cm
  • Painted in 1885.

Provenance

Félix Gérard, Paris
Paul Reinhardt Gallery, New York
Sale: American Art Association, New York, February 8, 1935, lot 50
Robert M. Vose Galleries, Boston
M.A. Sullivan, Boston
Julius Weitzner, New York
Stephen Hahn Galleries, New York
Knoedler & Co., New York
T.E. Edward Hanley, Bradford, Pennsylvania
E.V. Thaw & Company, New York (and sold: Sotheby's, London, April 12, 1972, lot 8)
Frost-Reed Ltd., London (acquired at the above sale)
MacConnal-Mason & Son, Ltd., London
Acquired from the above

Literature

Ruth L. Benjamin, Eugène Boudin, New York, 1937, p. 193
Robert Schmit, Eugène Boudin, 1824-1898, vol. II, Paris, 1973, no. 1944, illustrated p. 244

Condition

The work is in very good condition. The canvas is unlined. There is some scattered staining in the right half of the painting. Under UV inspection, there is one nailhead sized stroke of inpainting in the sky in the upper right quadrant.
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