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Country of origin: France
Medium: Oil on canvas
Signed: Signed lower right & dated 1909
Dated: 1909
Condition: Excellent
Size: 24.00" x 29.00" (61.0cm x 73.7cm)
Provenance: Galerie Bernheim Jeune - Paris
1947
Oil on canvas
£5,850.00
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La Plage a Soorts-Hossegor
by Maurice Brianchon
c. 1910
Oil on board
£6,450.00
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Port d’Honfleur
by Henri Lienard De Saint Delis
c. 1900
Oil on canvas
£5,650.00
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Sunrise – Les-Sables-d’Olonne
by Georges Philibert Charles Maroniez
c. 1880
Oil on panel
£4,650.00
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Bateaux sur la mer – le soir
by Alfred Emile Leopold Stevens
1960
Oil on canvas
£7,950.00
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Romeo de Ravenne
by Camille Hilaire
c. 1890
Oil on panel
£3,450.00
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Windmills on the Normandy coast
by Jean Baptiste Antoine Guillemet
c. 1920
Oil on panel
£7,950.00
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Figures on the beach – Yport
by Andre Devambez
1980
Oil on canvas
£4,950.00
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Vieux palais sur la canal – Venice
by Camille Hilaire
1907
Oil on canvas
£43,000.00
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Bord De Mer
by Willy Schlobach
c. 1920
Oil on canvas
£5,250.00
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Voilliers sur la cote
by Georges D'Espagnat
c. 1880
Oil on panel
£12,950.00
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Visite de l’escadre a Toulon
by Felix Francois Georges Philbert Ziem
c. 1920
Oil on board
£1,750.00
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Moored Boats – Martigues
by Georges Lapchine
Theodore Butler studied under Monet and lived in Giverny. He married Monet's stepdaughter Suzanne Hoshedé in 1892. Their marriage painted in The Wedding March by Theodore Robinson, is held by the Fondation Terra, Giverny.
Butler was greatly influenced by Monet and had no doubt sought this influence as he had deliberately come to Monet for advice. However, Butler also brought his own personal style to his work: he used the divided touch characteristic of Impressionism but deliberately fused together touches of different tones to create an effective optical blending. In addition, his use of pigment was drier, grainier and coarser than that of the traditional Impressionists and captured the light more effectively. By modulating colour and light, even if this means sacrificing drawing and outlines, he translated volumes in space with great intensity. One of the major and anecdotally interesting themes of his work is the series of some 25 Bathing the Child paintings which clearly show the child he had with Monet's stepdaughter and was a series he continued to work on for two and a half years, having started the year after his marriage. Butler painted many landscapes of the area around Giverny, reflecting, as a follower of the Impressionist movement, the changing seasons and the variations in light according to the time of day and the weather. Other themes to which he constantly returned throughout his career were those of mother and child or a woman in an interior and a child, or woman in a garden. He received a commendation at the Salon of the Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts in 1888. He also exhibited at the Salon des Artistes Indépendants between 1907 and 1932 and at the Salon d'Automne between 1907 and 1935.
Group Exhibitions
1992, Lasting Impressions: American Painters in France 1865-1915, Musée d'Art Américain, Terra Foundation for American Art, Giverny
2007, Giverny Impressionniste: une Colonie d'Artistes, 1885-1915, Musée d'Art Américain, Terra Foundation for American Art, Giverny
Museum and Gallery Holdings
Chicago (Terra Foundation for American Art Collection): The Card Players (c. 1896, oil on canvas); The Artist's Children, James and Lili (1896, oil on canvas); Le Dejeuner (1897, oil on canvas); Place de Rome at Night (1905, oil on canvas); Lili Butler Reading at the Butler House, Giverny (1908, oil on canvas)
New York (Metropolitan Mus. of Art): Un Jardin, Maison Baptiste (1895, oil on canvas)
Pittsburgh (Carnegie MA): Girl in Lavender, Seated at a Desk, or Woman at Desk (1908, oil on canvas)
Vernon (Mus. Alphonse-Georges Poulain): Sunset at Veules les Roses (1909, oil on canvas)