EUGÈNE BOUDIN | BERCK, BARQUES ET PÊCHEUSES
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December 14, 05:54 PM GMT
Estimate
30,000 - 40,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Property of a Private New York Collector
EUGÈNE BOUDIN
1824 - 1898
BERCK, BARQUES ET PÊCHEUSES
Signed E.Boudin (lower right); inscribed Berck (lower left)
Oil on panel
4¾ by 10¼ in. (12 by 26 cm)
Framed: 9⅞ by 15½ in. (25.1 by 39.4 cm)
Painted circa 1885-90.
A. Diot, Paris
Sale: Hôtel Drouot, Paris, May 12, 1923, lot 51
Sale: Hôtel Rameau, Versailles, June 18, 1974, lot 185
Acquired circa 1980s
New York, M. Knoedler & Co., Eugène Boudin, 1981, no. 24, illustrated in the catalogue
Robert Schmit, Eugène Boudin, 1824-1898, Premier supplément, Paris, 1984, no. 3766, illustrated p. 49
"Boudin—with his inexhaustible kindness—took it upon himself to educate me. With time, my eyes began to open and I really started to understand nature. I also learned to love it. I would analyze its forms with my pencil. I would study its colorations.”
-Claude Monet