
Property from an Important Private Collection
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