La Rochelle, Impression: Shifting Sunlight

Result EUR193,200

Published on 21 June 2021, by Anne Doridou-Heim

Auction on 11 June 2021 - 13:30 (CEST) - Salle 1-7 - Hôtel Drouot - 75009

Water was the blue thread running through this sale’s four most important paintings—those by Boudin, Renoir, Marquet and Loiseau.

Pierre Auguste Renoir (1841–1919), La Rochelle, c. 1896, oil on canvas, 32 x 41 cm/12.60... La Rochelle, Impression: Shifting Sunlight

Pierre Auguste Renoir (1841–1919), La Rochelle, c. 1896, oil on canvas, 32 x 41 cm/12.60 x 16.14 in.
Result: €193,200

Like Eugène Boudin’s view of Venice, Albert Marquet’s Bordeaux, Les Quinconces , which made the cover of La Gazette No. 21, and Gustave Loiseau’s Les Grands Arbres en bord de rivière ( Tall Trees by the River , 65 x 81 cm/25.59…

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ANCIENT, 19th CENTURY and MODERN PICTURES - MINIATURES - SCULPTURES - ART and FURNITURE OBJECTS from the 17th to the 19th CENTURY

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Albert Marquet: Inspirations from Bordeaux

Close to Matisse and the Fauves, Albert Marquet (1875-1947) carved himself a niche as a painter of water. While in Bordeaux, he tackled the Place des Quinconces and the Garonne in an improvisatory style.