HENRI LEBASQUE | BARQUE SUR LA MARNE

Galerie Daniel Besseiche, Geneva (and sold: Sotheby's, London, December 4, 1996, lot 123)

Acquired at the above sale

Denise Bazetoux, Henri Lebasque, Catalogue raisonné, vol. I, Neuilly-sur-Marne, 2008, no. 198, illustrated p. 98

A prime example of Lebasque's ability to capture the play of light on water, the present work is a serene representation of the Marne river, a tributary of the Seine. 

According to Lisa Banner: "[Lebasque] was hailed as the painter of 'Joy and Light' by art critics and curators of the Louvre in his later life. But Lebasque's primary concerns were with simple expression of sensuous surface... He achieved an intimate manner of painting those scenes and people most dear to him, which was replete with his personal delight in form and colour, heightened by his contact with fellow painters Matisse and Bonnard, but characteristically his own" (Lisa Banner, Lebasque, 1865-1937 (exhibition catalogue), Montgomery Gallery, San Francisco, 1985, p. 20).