Paul Signac: Comblat-le-Château. La Vallée
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Artist |
Paul Signac
(1863–1935) |
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Alternative names |
Hsi-nieh-kʻo; Polʹ Sinʹi︠a︡k; Paul Victor Jules Signac; Signac; p. signac; signac p. |
Description |
French painter, drawer, aquarellist and printmaker |
Date of birth/death |
11 November 1863 |
15 August 1935 |
Location of birth/death |
Paris |
Paris |
Work period |
from 1882 until 1935 date QS:P,+1500-00-00T00:00:00Z/6,P580,+1882-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P582,+1935-00-00T00:00:00Z/9 |
Work location |
Paris (1882-1935), Asnières-sur-Seine (1887), Arles (March 1889), Italy (1890), Genoa (1890), Florence (1890), Naples (1890), Volendam (1894, 1896), Saint-Tropez (1897-....), Rotterdam (1906, 1907), Antibes (September 1913-....) |
Authority file |
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artist QS:P170,Q151573 |
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Title |
Comblat et la vallée de la Cère |
Object type |
painting object_type QS:P31,Q3305213 |
Date |
1887 date QS:P571,+1887-00-00T00:00:00Z/9 |
Medium |
oil on canvas medium QS:P186,Q296955;P186,Q12321255,P518,Q861259 |
Dimensions |
height: 46 cm (18.1 in); width: 55 cm (21.6 in) dimensions QS:P2048,46U174728 dimensions QS:P2049,55U174728 |
Object history |
Baron Denys Cochin, Paris (acquired from the artist, according to the artist's notebook) Charles Laurent, Paris (acquired in 1887) Mme Thérèse A. Laurent (by descent from the above) Wildenstein & Co., Inc., New York (acquired from the above) Mr. & Mrs. Benno C. Schmidt, New York (acquired from the above in 1964 and sold: Sotheby's, New York, May 10, 2000, lot 2) Private Collection, Seattle (acquired at the above sale and sold: Sotheby's, New York, May 5, 2010, lot 36) Acquired at the above sale by A. Alfred Taubman Sotheby's, New York, November 4, 2015, lot 64 |
Exhibition history |
- Brussels, Ve Exposition des XX, 1888, no. 8 (titled Op. 163, Juillet 1887)
- Paris, Pavillon de la Ville de Paris, 4e Exposition des artistes indépendants, 1888, no. 628 (titled Op. 163, Comblat-le-Château, Julliet 1887)
- New York, 867 Madison Avenue (Christie, Manson & Wood), Van Gogh, Gauguin and their circle, 1968
- New York, Wildenstein & Co., Inc., Nature as Scene — French Landscape Painting from Poussin to Bonnard, 1975, no. 61
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Inscriptions |
Signature and date bottom left:
P. Signac 87
bottom right:
Op. 163
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Notes |
Françoise Cachin, Signac, Catalogue raisonné de l'oeuvre peint, Paris, 2000, no. 149 |
References |
Sotheby's, New York, 04 November 2015, lot 64 |
Source/Photographer |
Sotheby's, New York, 05 May 2010, lot 36 |