HENRI LE SIDANER | Le Perron, soleil

Galeries Georges Petit, Paris
Private Collection
J.J. Gillespie Co., Pittsburgh
Armstrong World Industries, Lancaster
Excel Productions, New York
Acquired from the above

London, Goupil Gallery, Le Sidaner, 1905, no. 25
Paris, Salon de la Societé Nationale des Beaux-Arts, 1918, no. 809
Paris, Galeries Georges Petit, Société nouvelle, no. 92

Yann Farinaux-Le Sidaner, Le Sidaner, L'Oeuvre peint et gravé, Paris, 1989, no. 179, illustrated p. 96

The canvas is unlined. The surface is richly textured and the impasto well-preserved. Under UV light, there are strokes of inpainting in a 4 by 4 inch T shaped area the upper right quadrant of the composition, corresponding to an T-shaped repair visible on the reverse of the canvas. There a couple small strokes of inpainting along the left half of the lower edge. There is a quarter sized area of inpainting in the lower right corner.
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