Late 2020 proved a fertile period for the Musée d’Art Hyacinthe-Rigaud, when the collection dedicated to the Neo-Impressionist took on several new additions: preemptions illustrating not only his great art but also his immense devotion to Gauguin.
George-Daniel de Monfreid (1856-1929), Autoportrait à la veste blanche, 1889, oil on canvas signed on the bottom left "Daniel" and dated "June 14, 1889", 65 x 49 cm (25.6 x 19.3 in, detail). Bordeaux, December 3, 2020. Jean Dit Cazaux & Associés auction house
Result: €90,376 – pre-empted by the Musée Hyacinthe-Rigaud, Perpignan
On December 3, several key pieces evoking the life and work of George-Daniel de Monfreid (1856-1929), the painter and champion of modern art , left the Gironde region to join the Musée Hyacinthe-Rigaud in Perpignan (Southern France). That day, the Jean Dit Cazaux & Associés auction house of Bordeaux sold the collection that had hitherto remained in the family of the Neo-Impressionist painter and his son Henry (1879-1974), a writer famous for his adventures in the Red Sea. Using the preemption mechanism, the Perpignan institution thus acquired three exceptional lots: the 1889 painting Autoportrait à la veste blanche ( Self-Portrait with White Jacket ) for €90,376; the twenty-six woodcuts he produced for Noa Noa (Paul Gauguin 's journal during his first trip to Tahiti), for €25,280, and ninety-five notebooks well-filled by Monfreid…
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