Auction on
03 December 2021 - 11:00 (CET) -
Salle 1-7 - Hôtel Drouot - 75009
Brittany was the Normand painter’s other anchorage. His paintings of its shores are lesser known than the ones he did in Normandy, but just as lovely.
Eugène Boudin (1824-1898), Portrieux, marée basse (Portrieux, Low Tide), 1875, oil on canvas, 51.5 x 75 cm/20.28 x 29.52 in. Estimate: €60,000/80,000
Eugène Boudin (1824-1898), Portrieux, marée basse (Portrieux, Low Tide), 1875, oil on canvas, 51.5 x 75 cm/20.28 x 29.52 in. Estimate: €60,000/80,000
“I discovered this place too late,” Eugène Boudin wrote in a letter to his brother Louis, expressing his regret over not having visited Brittany earlier. “It is everything I ever could have dreamed of, and I shall return”. The region had become fashionable with artists after the new railroad put it within just a day’s reach of Paris. Boudin traveled…
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