Lot 545
  • 545

Eugène Boudin

Estimate
60,000 - 80,000 GBP
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Description

  • Eugène Louis Boudin
  • Berck. La plage
  • signed E. Boudin and dated Berck 18 juillet 82 (lower left)
  • oil on canvas
  • 53.8 by 74cm., 21 1/8 by 29 1/8 in.

Provenance

Galerie Durand-Ruel, Paris
Abbé Gaugain, Paris (sale: Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 6th May 1901, lot 1) 
Arthur Tooth & Sons Ltd., London
C.W. Kraushaar Galleries, New York
E.J. van Wisselingh & Co., Amsterdam
Sale: Sotheby's, London, 12th June 1963, lot 66
Frost & Reed, London (purchased at the above sale)
Sale: Sotheby's, London, 30th June 1981, lot 1
Purchased at the above sale by the present owner

Exhibited

Paris, Ecole des Beaux-Arts, Exposition des œuvres d'Eugène Boudin, 1899, no. 238
London, Arthur Tooth & Sons Ltd., Eugène Boudin, 1934, no. 27

Literature

Ruth L. Benjamin, Eugène Boudin, New York, 1937, pp. 173 & 146, illustrated 
Robert Schmit, Eugène Boudin, Catalogue raisonné de l'œuvre peint, vol. II, Paris, 1973, no. 1663, illustrated p. 142

Condition

The canvas is lined. There is a layer of varnish preventing the UV light from fully penetrating, however UV examination reveals no signs of retouching. This work would benefit from a light clean and is in overall good condition.
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