Gustave Loiseau, Port à Fécamp

A Century of Style: Works from the Collection of Audrey Zauderer
Gustave Loiseau
1865 - 1935
Port à Fécamp

Signed G. Loiseau and dated 1924 (lower left)
Oil on canvas
21 1/4 by 25 1/2 in. (54 by 64.8 cm)
Framed: 30 1/8 by 34 3/8 in. (76.5 by 87.3 cm)
Painted in Fécamp in 1924.

This work will be included in the forthcoming catalogue raisonné being prepared by Didier Imbert.

Condition Report:
This work is in very good condition. The canvas is unlined. The surface is richly textured and the impasto is well preserved. Five pinholes in the lower left corner and three in the lower right corner. Some very light frame abrasion to all four edges. A few thin lines of craquelure in the house closest to the canal in the upper left quadrant. Two accretions to the canvas in the upper right corner. Under UV light: Some original pigments fluoresce but no inpainting is apparent.

Provenance:
Durand-Ruel & Galeries Georges Petit, Paris (jointly acquired from the artist on May 31, 1924)

Private Collection, United States (and sold: Parke-Bernet Galleries, Inc., New York, March 2, 1944, lot 16)

Grand Central Art Galleries, New York (acquired at the above sale and sold: Parke-Bernet Galleries, Inc., New York, December 10-11, 1947, lot 92)

Acquired at the above sale