Medium: Oil on canvas
Signed: Signed lower right
Size: 21.50" x 29.00" (54.6cm x 73.7cm)
Framed Size: 28.50" x 37.00" (72.4cm x 94.0cm)
Dated: 1901
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Condition: Very good original condition
Provenance:
Galerie Georges Petit
Goupil Gallery - London
The preparatory study in oil for this work is illustrated on page 309 of the catalogue raisonne under ref . 885
This work is accompanied by a certificate of authenticity from Yann Farinaux Le Sidaner and will be included in the forthcoming supplement to the Catalogue Raisonne.
Literature:
This work depicts the Place du Franc Marché in the small commune of Songeons - a short walk through the forest from the artists house in Gerberoy.
Yann Farinaux Le Sidaner has kindly provided the following commentary on this work …..
When he moved to Gerberoy in the summer of 1901, Henri Le Sidaner finally found the direction for his art: the contemplation of sleepy towns where the past had left its beautiful traces. The artist, under contract with the Georges Petit gallery, then the most important in Paris, experienced an unprecedented creative effervescence.
The Le Sidaners made a habit of going to the Songeons market on Thursdays, located 10 minutes by bicycle from Gerberoy. On September 16, the artist stopped to sketch the motif of the pruned trees on the Grand Marché square, in front of the gendarmerie, where the French flag could be seen.
On October 24, he painted an important study of the same motif. The canvas itself was painted in his Gerberoy studio on November 3, 4, 5, and 22, then sent to Georges Petit, who paid him 500 francs for it. The following spring, the work contributed to the success of the Société Nouvelle exhibition, where it was acquired by Georges Moreau, director of La Revue Encyclopédique Larousse.
In March 1904, Le Sidaner wrote to the latter: “As Camille Mauclair is due to publish an article in L'Art Décoratif accompanied by some reproductions of my works, I would be grateful if you would allow me to have Les Arbres taillés photographed. It is one of my favorites.”
At the painter's request, Georges Moreau lent the painting to the retrospective dedicated to him by the Goupil Gallery in London .
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Henri Le Sidaner went to Paris in 1880 and became a pupil of Cabanel at the École des Beaux-Arts in 1884. He lived in Brussels and Bruges in 1898 and 1899, then in 1900 moved to Gerberoy in the Oise, and later to Versailles.
Henri Le Sidaner’s art falls oddly between that of the late Impressionists, whose divisionism he practised, and that of Eugène Carrière, which is characterised by indeterminate colours and a taste for a certain misty atmosphere. He often painted in Venice and Bruges and is noted for his twilight effects. C. Mauclair, a writer imbued with the symbolist spirit, has perhaps best described his talent. Among his most notable works are Blessing the Sea, Patrol in Moonlight, Canal in Bruges, and The Ducal Palace and Grand Canal, Venice.
Henri Le Sidaner exhibited in Paris for the first time in 1887 at the Salon des Artistes Français, where he was awarded a third-class medal and a travel scholarship in 1891. He also exhibited in Paris at the Salon de la Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts, and in Brussels at the Salon de la Libre Esthétique. He was awarded a bronze medal at the Paris Exposition Universelle of 1900. In 1930 Henri Le Sidaner, an officer of the Légion d'Honneur, was appointed a member of the Institut, to replace E. Laurent at the Académie des Beaux-Arts. Retrospectives of his work were held at the museum of Dunkirk in 1974, the Musée d'Art Moderne et Contemporain, Liège, in 1996, and then in Carcassonne and Limoux. Among the other exhibitions and retrospectives have been Henri Le Sidaner en son jardin de Gerberoy, de 1901 à 1939, held in 2001 at the Musée de la Chartreuese, Douai, and Henri Le Sidaner en Bretagne, 2002, at the museum of Pont-Aven.
Museum and Gallery Holdings
Châlons-en-Champagne: Blessing the Sea
Douai (Mus. de la Chartreuse): Red Carpet; Soldier's Tomb; Last Communion; Portrait of Madame Piettre
Dublin: Tea
Dunkirk: Orphans Going for a Walk
Liège (Mus. of Modern and Contemporary Art)
Morlaix (Mus. des Jacobins)
Nantes (MBA): Laid Table in a Park; May Evening
Paris (MAM): Sun inside a House; Table
Pittsburgh (Carnegie MA): Moonlight (c. 1913, oil on canvas); The House of Gerberoy: Evening (c. 1930, oil on canvas)
Rome (Gal. Nazionale d'Arte Moderna): Veranda
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