FERDINAND DU PUIGAUDEAU (1864-1930) Sortie de la Chapelle Notre-Dame-de-Trémalo (Pont-Aven)
FERDINAND DU PUIGAUDEAU (1864-1930)
Sortie de la Chapelle Notre-Dame-de-Trémalo (Pont-Aven)
signed 'F. du Puigaudeau.' (lower left)
oil on canvas
65.5 x 81cm (25 13/16 x 31 7/8in).
Painted in Pont-Aven circa 1895-1898
Provenance
Anon. sale, Maîtres Martin, Versailles, 28 March 1976, lot 82.
Private collection, France (acquired by 1983).
Wally Findlay Galleries, New York.
Leighton Fine Art, UK.
Anon. sale, Weschler's, Rockville, 10 March 2023, lot 15.
Acquired at the above sale by the previous owner.
Acquired from the above by the present owner.
Literature
C-G. Le Paul, L'Impressionisme dans l'École de Pont-Aven, Monet, Renoir, Gauguin et leurs disciples, Paris, 1983, p. 254 (illustrated p. 252).
A. Laurentin, Ferdinand du Puigaudeau (1864-1930), Vol. I, Paris, 1989, no. 24 (illustrated p. 260).
Ferdinand du Puigaudeau's scenes of Brittany are arguably his most noteworthy works. The artist frequently depicted Breton children – donned with their iconic smocks and headdresses – taking part in religious festivals and rituals. In the present work, painted on the Day of Pardon, the children spill out from the Chapelle Notre-Dame-de-Trémalo in Pont-Aven. Their fervent motion and youthful vitality is matched by the artist's lively Impressionistic brushwork and shimmering spectrum of colour and light. This chapel was also where Paul Gauguin painted his 1889 work Le Christ jaune, considered to be a key work of Symbolism and Cloisonnism, wherein the artist incorporated the design of the chapel's wooden polychrome crucifix. The 16th century chapel and its crucifix remain to this day, together with the large oak tree seen to the left of the present work, which continues to cast its shadow over the churchyard.
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FERDINAND DU PUIGAUDEAU (1864-1930)
Sortie de la Chapelle Notre-Dame-de-Trémalo (Pont-Aven)
signed 'F. du Puigaudeau.' (lower left)
oil on canvas
65.5 x 81cm (25 13/16 x 31 7/8in).
Painted in Pont-Aven circa 1895-1898
Provenance
Anon. sale, Maîtres Martin, Versailles, 28 March 1976, lot 82.
Private collection, France (acquired by 1983).
Wally Findlay Galleries, New York.
Leighton Fine Art, UK.
Anon. sale, Weschler's, Rockville, 10 March 2023, lot 15.
Acquired at the above sale by the previous owner.
Acquired from the above by the present owner.
Literature
C-G. Le Paul, L'Impressionisme dans l'École de Pont-Aven, Monet, Renoir, Gauguin et leurs disciples, Paris, 1983, p. 254 (illustrated p. 252).
A. Laurentin, Ferdinand du Puigaudeau (1864-1930), Vol. I, Paris, 1989, no. 24 (illustrated p. 260).
Ferdinand du Puigaudeau's scenes of Brittany are arguably his most noteworthy works. The artist frequently depicted Breton children – donned with their iconic smocks and headdresses – taking part in religious festivals and rituals. In the present work, painted on the Day of Pardon, the children spill out from the Chapelle Notre-Dame-de-Trémalo in Pont-Aven. Their fervent motion and youthful vitality is matched by the artist's lively Impressionistic brushwork and shimmering spectrum of colour and light. This chapel was also where Paul Gauguin painted his 1889 work Le Christ jaune, considered to be a key work of Symbolism and Cloisonnism, wherein the artist incorporated the design of the chapel's wooden polychrome crucifix. The 16th century chapel and its crucifix remain to this day, together with the large oak tree seen to the left of the present work, which continues to cast its shadow over the churchyard.
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