View full screen - View 1 of Lot 37. Marseille. Le Port.

Property from an Important Private Collection

Paul Signac

Marseille. Le Port

Auction Closed

March 4, 09:10 PM GMT

Estimate

4,000,000 - 6,000,000 GBP

Lot Details

Description

Paul Signac

1863 - 1935


Marseille. Le Port

stamped P. Signac (lower right)

oil on canvas

73.3 by 92.2 cm. 28⅞ by 36¼ in.

Executed in 1934.

Estate of the artist

Ginette Cachin (née Signac), Paris (the artist’s daughter; acquired by descent from the above)

Henri Kréa, Paris (acquired as a gift from the above in May 1968)

Estate of Henri Kréa

Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 22 June 2001, lot 17 (consigned by the above)

Private Collection (acquired from the above sale)

Christie’s, London, 21 June 2005, lot 23

Private Collection, Switzerland (acquired from the above sale)

Christie’s, London, 23 June 2015, lot 23

Acquired at the above sale by the present owner

Santiago, Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Exposición de pintura francesa contemporanea de Manet hasta nuestros días, 1950, no. 11, p. 31 (titled Marseille-Port and dated 1933)

Françoise Cachin, Signac, Catalogue raisonné de l'œuvre peint, Paris, 2000, no. 611, p. 341, illustrated