Paul Camille Guigou

Galerie Daber, Paris
Arthur Tooth & Sons, London
Mrs. Frank Jay Gould, née Florence Lacaze (1896-1983), Cannes (and sold by her estate: New York, Sotheby's, April 25, 1985, lot 114)

Probably,  Paris, Salon, 1872, no. 758
Paris, Galerie Daber, Guigou, June 1-30, 1950, no. 24
London, Arthur Tooth & Sons, Ltd., Paris -- Londres, April 11-May 11, 1951, no. 30

K. Scholtz, "Paul Guigou und die provenzalische Landschaftsmalerei des 19. Jahrhunderts" (unpublished Ph. D. dissertation, University of Hamburg), 1954, no. 37
F. Daulte, "Un provençal pur: Paul Guigou," Connaissance des Arts, April 1960, p.73, illustrated fig. 98
C.-J. Bonnici, Paul Guigou, catalogue raisonné, Paris, 1989, p. 168, no. 161, illustrated

Oil on canvas, unlined. The canvas is slack on the stretcher. The picture surface is dirty but in overall good condition. Minor craquelure and pigment separation, especially in the more thickly painted whites. Under UV, there is a small area of inpaint in the sky at upper center, but otherwise no apparent inpainting is visible.
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