Sixty Works by Modern Masters - Flipbook - Page 59
Henri Le Sidaner
Henri Le Sidaner
French, 1862 - 1939
Les Hortensias, Gerberoy, 1938
Oil on canvas
23 x 35 inches / 60 x 90 cm
Signed lower left: Le Sidaner
Henri Le Sidaner was a foremost
exponent of ‘Intimist’ painting,
a branch of Post-Impressionism
concentrating on sun-dappled,
tranquil and familiar domestic
settings that functioned as windows
of escapism.
Le Sidaner began his art studies in
1877, soon breaking away from
the academic school of painting
prevailing at the Ecole des BeauxArts in Paris to develop a relaxed,
pointillist brushstroke. As the present
work suggests, his particular talents
lay in capturing complex effects of
the light and in producing wellbalanced compositions. Abundant
foliage frames this scene, and a table
and chair in the foreground seem to
invite the viewer into the silence of a
beautifully sunlit evening.
Provenance
Galerie Charpentier, Paris, circa 1939
Private collection, France
Exhibited
Paris, Galerie Charpentier, Exposition Le Sidaner, February 1939, no. 7
Literature
Yann Farinaux-Le Sidaner, Le Sidaner, l’oeuvre peint et gravé, Paris 1989,
no. 788, illustrated p. 286
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