Eugène Boudin
Fécamp: The Inner Harbor, 1883
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5 further works by Boudin
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Oil on panel, 26,5 x 35 cm
Signed, dated and inscribed lower left: E. Boudin - Fécamp - 83
Inv.-no. MB-Bou-05
Unlike traditional harbor pictures that direct the gaze to the open sea, Eugène Boudin chose the perspective from the quayside. The quay wall separates the sky from the water. This division emphasizes the reflections of the sky on the water. The use of pink, yellow, and light blue heralds the light-filled paintings of Impressionism.
Impressionism: The Art of Landscape, Museum Barberini, Potsdam, January 21–May 28, 2017
Impressionism: The Hasso Plattner Collection, Museum Barberini, Potsdam, from September 5, 2020
May 16, 1900, Hôtel Drouot,
Paris, Adam Collection, lot 19
April 17, 1917, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, Collection of M. L. P., lot 3
n.d., Paul Détrimont, Paris
n.d., Galerie Lorenceau, Paris
ca. 1973, Private collection
June 27, 1995, Christie’s, London, lot 283
September 12, 2006, Sotheby’s, New York, lot 12, unsold
April 2, 2007, Artcurial, Paris, lot 9
January 2009, Art trade
Robert Schmit, Eugène Boudin 1824–1898: Catalogue raisonné de l'œuvre peint, vol. 2, Paris 1973, no. 1738, p. 172, ill. p. 172
Impressionism: The Art of Landscape, exh. cat. Museum Barberini, Potsdam 2017, no. 4, ill. p. 96
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