Lot 3209* - A211 Impressionist & Modern Art - Friday, 29. November 2024, 05.00 PM
GUSTAVE LOISEAU
(1865 Paris 1935)
Tournedos-sur-Seine. Neige, givre, soleil. 1899/1900.
Oil on canvas.
Signed lower left: G. Loiseau.
Entitled verso on the stretcher: Tournedos-sur-Seine. Neige, givre, soleil.
Entitled verso on the stretcher: Tournedos-sur-Seine. Neige, givre, soleil.
54.6 × 73 cm.
Provenance:
- Private collection, Papeete, Tahiti.
- Sale Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 8.4.1989, Lot 59.
- Private collection, France.
- With Schiller & Bodo, New York.
- Private collection, Greenwich, Connecticut, acquired on 18.4.1996 at the above gallery.
- Sale Sotheby's, New York, 15.5.2019, Lot 104.
- With Richard Green, London (label verso), acquired at the above auction.
- Private collection, France, acquired at the above gallery.
Like many of his contemporaries and artist friends, Gustave Loiseau was fascinated by the rural areas on the banks of the Seine, away from the bustling city, and he captured them again and again in every season, in changing light and weather conditions.
In the early work presented here, from around the turn of the century, winter has settled on Tournedos-sur-Seine; it is frosty cold and windy.
Although everything is blue and white, the painting is anything but monotonous: thanks to his great sophistication, the artist succeeds in depicting the three areas of water, sky and path in the same color but in distinctive ways. While the snow-covered path is roughed out with small, violent brushstrokes, the flowing water of the Seine is depicted with more even, less agitated marks. The sky, which shines with a lighter blue than the water, is all the more vibrant and expressive due to the little clouds. Lovely elements of color and structure are created with the brown-green bushes on the river bank, the group of houses in the area at the left, and the tree in the center that defies the wind.
This outstanding example of impressionist painting fascinates and takes the viewer to the small Norman village on the banks of the Seine on a sunny but bitterly cold winter day.
In the early work presented here, from around the turn of the century, winter has settled on Tournedos-sur-Seine; it is frosty cold and windy.
Although everything is blue and white, the painting is anything but monotonous: thanks to his great sophistication, the artist succeeds in depicting the three areas of water, sky and path in the same color but in distinctive ways. While the snow-covered path is roughed out with small, violent brushstrokes, the flowing water of the Seine is depicted with more even, less agitated marks. The sky, which shines with a lighter blue than the water, is all the more vibrant and expressive due to the little clouds. Lovely elements of color and structure are created with the brown-green bushes on the river bank, the group of houses in the area at the left, and the tree in the center that defies the wind.
This outstanding example of impressionist painting fascinates and takes the viewer to the small Norman village on the banks of the Seine on a sunny but bitterly cold winter day.
GUSTAVE LOISEAU
CHF 150 000 / 250 000 | (€ 154 640 / 257 730)