Lot 117
  • 117

Eugène Boudin

Estimate
120,000 - 180,000 USD
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Description

  • Eugène Louis Boudin
  • Trouville, Grève et rochers
  • Signed E. Boudin (lower left)
  • Oil on canvas
  • 18 1/8 by 29 1/2 in.
  • 46 by 74.9 cm

Provenance

Collection of the artist (and sold: Hôtel Drouot, Paris, March 25, 1868, lot 4)
G. Chalupt, Paris (and sold: Hôtel Drouot, Paris, March 26, 1873, lot 3)
M.M., Paris (and sold: Hôtel Drouot, Paris, April 18, 1876, lot 12)
Sale: Salon du Trianon Palace, Versailles, May 29, 1959, lot 48
Arthur Tooth & Sons, London (acquired by 1962)
Sale: Christie's, London, March 30, 1987, lot 2
Acquired at the above sale

Exhibited

London, Arthur Tooth & Sons, Eugène Boudin, 1962, no. 17
Philadelphia, Philadelphia Museum of Art, By the Sea: Eugène Boudin and His Impressionist Friends, 1991, n.n.

Literature

Robert Schmit, Eugène Boudin, 1824-1898, vol. I, Paris, 1973, no. 227, illustrated p. 72

Condition

This work is in very good condition. The canvas has been lined. The colors are particularly bright and clean. Fine lines of stable craquelure are scattered throughout and faint stretcher marks are visible in raking light running vertically through the center of the composition. Under UV light: no inpainting is apparent.
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