Henri LE SIDANER (1862-1939)

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30000 - 50000 EUR
Henri LE SIDANER (1862-1939)
The Barges, setting sun, Bruges, 1899. Oil on canvas Signed, dated and located lower left. 63 x 60 cm. Provenance: Galerie Georges Petit, Paris, no. 3637 (delivered by the artist on September 28, 1899 for 300 francs). M. Léon Payen, Paris (acquired from the above). Hôtel Drouot, sale of the Payen collection, June 29, 1916, n°75. Private collection. Exhibition: From March 10 to 31, 1900, Georges Petit gallery, Paris, 1st exhibition of La Société Nouvelle des peintres et sculpteurs, n°101 (owned by M. Payen). February 1905, Goupil Gallery, London, Henri Le Sidaner, n°3. Bibliography : Camille Mauclair, 1928. Le Sidaner, rep. p.21. Yann Farinaux-Le Sidaner, 1989. Le Sidaner, l'oeuvre et peint et gravé, n°72, rep. p.66. The Barges, Sunset was painted in the summer of 1899, during the second part of Henri Le Sidaner's stay in Bruges. Presented at the 1899 Salon, his previous Bruges series had been so successful that it prompted Georges Petit, owner of the most important gallery in Paris, to sign an exclusive contract with the artist. Le Sidaner presented Les Barges at the first exhibition of the Société Nouvelle in the large hall of the Georges Petit gallery. The event was triumphant and the Société Nouvelle instantly became the most famous group of the Belle Epoque. This second Bruges group was even more successful and definitively established Le Sidaner. The first purchaser of the painting, who, at the painter's request, lent the work to two of his exhibitions, was the great art lover, Mr. Léon Payen: "He loved painting deeply," wrote Louis Vauxcelles, "and knew not only how to address himself to the right painter, but also how to buy his best works. At the sale of his extraordinary collection, there were 8 Pissarro, 12 Sisley, then Van Gogh, Boudin, Raffaëlli, etc.
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