Henri-Joseph Harpignies
Forest Path, Menton
Estimate
3,000 - 5,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Henri-Joseph Harpignies
(Valenciennes 1819 - 1916 Saint-Privé)
Forest Path, Menton
Watercolor over pencil;
signed and dated in black ink, lower left: h. harpignies. 1905
inscribed, lower right: Menton
286 by 197 mm; 11¼ by 7¾ in.
Possibly with Arlond & Tripp, Paris (L.3279 stamped on the verso);
sale, New York, Christie's, 22 May 1997, lot 220,
with Jill Newhouse Gallery, New York, 2013,
where acquired by Diane A. Nixon
Harpignies was born in Valenciennes in northern France but throughout his adult life he spent many winters at Menton on the Côte d’Azur, where he was inspired not by the glamourous resort villas, but by the surrounding woodland, the sea and the Mediterranean light.
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