Lot 165
  • 165

Paul Signac

Estimate
150,000 - 200,000 USD
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Description

  • Paul Signac
  • Rue de la Station, Asnières
  • Signed P. Signac (lower left); also inscribed A Madame Racine Hommages respectueux (lower right)
  • Oil on canvas
  • 13 by 18 1/4 in.
  • 32 by 46 cm

Provenance

Madame Racine, Paris (acquired from the artist)
Vaumousse, Paris
Félix Fénéon, Paris (acquired in 1927)
Galerie Huinck and Scherjon, Amsterdam
Philippe Reichenbach, Paris (acquired in 1973)
Sold: Sotheby's, London, December 5, 1973, lot 33
Hervé Odermatt, Paris
Sale: Sotheby's, London, April 7, 1976, lot 17
Sale: Sotheby's, London, December 6, 1978, lot 17

Exhibited

Paris, Salon des Indépendants, 1884, no. 251 (titled as L'ombre dans la rue de la Station (Asnières))
Paris, Bernheim-Jeune, 1930, no. 2
Paris, Petit-Palais, 1934, no. 1 (titled as La Gare d'Asnières)
Amsterdam, Galerie Huinck and Scherjon, 1935, no. 3

Literature

Claude Roger-Marx, L'Amour de l'art, Paris, 1933, discussed p. 36
François Cachin, Signac, Catalogue raisonné de l'oeuvre peint, Paris, 2000, no. 80, illustrated p. 163

Condition

Good condition. The canvas is strip-lined. Under ultra violet light, there are scattered spots of retouching throughout the composition. The impasto in presently intact.
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