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Property from a Prestigious French Collection

Paul Signac

Saint-Georges. Couchant (Venise)

Auction Closed

May 14, 01:12 AM GMT

Estimate

7,000,000 - 10,000,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Property from a Prestigious French Collection

Paul Signac

(1863 - 1935)


Saint-Georges. Couchant (Venise)

signed P. Signac and dated 05 (lower left)

oil on canvas

25 ⅝ by 31 ⅞ in.   65.2 by 81 cm.

Executed in 1905.

Galerie Druet, Paris

Gustave Fayet, Paris

Galerie Druet, Paris (acquired from the above on 8 March 1907)

Henri Aubry, Paris (acquired from the above on 26 March 1907)

Galerie Druet, Paris (acquired from the above on 26 March 1907)

Dr. Maurice Girardin, Paris (acquired from the above on 19 June 1916)

Galerie Charpentier, Paris, 10 December 1953, lot 59 (consigned by the estate of the above)

Private Collection, France (acquired at the above sale)

Acquired by descent from the above by the present owner

Exh. Cat., Musée d’Art moderne de la Ville de Paris, Passions privées, 1995-96, p. 699 (titled Venise

Geneviève Nevejan, “Maurice Girardin, Un Collectionneur de son temps,” Vingtième Siècle. Revue d'histoire, no. 50, April-June 1996, p. 144 (titled Venise)

Françoise Cachin, Signac: Catalogue raisonné de L'œuvre peint, Paris, 2000, no. 421, p. 271, illustrated (with incorrect inscription)

Paris, Galerie Bernheim-Jeune, Exposition Paul Signac, 1907, no. 10 (titled Saint-Georges)