LOT DETAILS

Materials:

oil on canvas

Size Notes:

Le Port au soleil couchant, Opus 236 (Saint-Tropez) 25.625 x 32 in. (65 x 81.3 cm.)

Markings:

signed and dated ‘P. Signac 92’ (lower left); inscribed ‘Op. 236’ (lower right)

Exhibited:

Paris, Salons de l’hôtel Brébant, Exposition des Peintres Néo-Impressionnistes, December 1892 - January 1893, no. 58, n.p. (titled ‘Soleil couché (Saint-Tropez)’). Brussels, Musée d'Art Moderne, 10e Exposition des XX, February 1893 (titled ‘Op 233 Soleil couchant/Soleil couché. Saint-Tropez’). Anvers, Association pour L’Art, Seconde exposition annuelle, May 1893, n.p. (titled ‘Op. 233 Soleil couchant/Soleil couché Saint Tropez’). Saint-Tropez, Musée de l’Annonciade, Signac & Saint-Tropez, 1892-1913, June - October 1992, no. 1, p. 30 (illustrated p. 31); this exibition later travelled to Reims, Musée des Beaux-Arts, November - December 1992. Paris, Galeries Nationales du Grand Palais, Signac, 1863-1935, February - May 2001, no. 59 (illustrated); this exhibition later travelled to Amsterdam, Van Gogh Museum, June - September 2001, no. 61, pp. 179-180 (illustrated; illustrated again on the cover); and New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, October - December 2001 (illustrated; illustrated again on the cover). Washington, D.C., The Phillips Collection, Neo-Impressionism and the Dream of Realities: Painting, Poetry, Music, September 2014 - January 2015, fig. 83, pp. 114 & 180 (illustrated p. 119; detail illustrated p. 100).

Literature:

The artist’s handlist, no. 236 (titled ‘Le port au soleil couchant’). T. Natanson, ‘Exposition des Vingt’, in La Revue Blanche, Paris, March 1893, p. 219. Y. Rambosson, ‘Le mois artistique: Quatrième Exposition des Peintres Impressionnistes et Symbolistes’, in Mercure de France, vol. VII, Paris, January - April 1893, p. 369 (titled 'Marine'). A. de La Rochefoucauld, ‘Paul Signac’, in Le Cœur, May 1893, pp. 4-5. M.-J. Chartrain-Hebbelinck, ‘Les lettres de Paul Signac à Octave Maus’, in Bulletin des Musées Royaux des Beaux-Arts de Belgique, nos. 1-2, Brussels, 1969, p. 74. M. Ferretti-Bocquillon, ‘Peintures, Dessins et Aquarelles’, in Signac & Saint-Tropez, Saint-Tropez, 1992, no. 1 (illustrated). M. Blume, ‘Saint-Tropez Serving Up a Little Culture’, in International Herald Tribune, Paris, 13 July 1992, p. 20 (illustrated). P. Daix, ‘Signac à Saint-Tropez’, in Le Quotidien de Paris, Paris, 16 July 1992, p. 18. P. Schneider, ‘Signac à bon port’, in L’Express, Paris, 3 September 1992, p. 94. C. Finch, ‘Neo-impressionist paintings’, in Interior Design, New York, October 1993, pp. 196-200 (illustrated p. 197). F. Cachin, Signac, Catalogue raisonné de l'oeuvre peint, Paris, 2000, no. 229, p. 208 (illustrated; illustrated again p. 44).

Provenance:

Georges Lecomte, Paris, a gift from the artist, before 1902. Mme Odile Favrel, Paris. Galerie Durand-Ruel, Paris, on consignment from the above, by 22 October 1958. Sam Salz, New York, by 1959. Mrs Van Horn, Pennsylvania. Col Edgar William & Bernice Chrysler Garbisch, New York; their sale, Sotheby Parke Bernet, Inc., New York, 12 May 1980, lot 21. Private collection, New York, by whom acquired at the above sale; sale, Sotheby’s, New York, 11 May 1993, lot 23. Acquavella Galleries, New York, by whom acquired at the above sale. Acquired from the above, in May 1994.