Eugène Boudin
Le Havre: Sunset on the Sea, 1885
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Oil on canvas, 65 x 92,5 cm
Signed and dated lower left: E. Boudin 85
Inv.-no. MB-Bou-06
In addition to his pictures of elegantly clothed bathing guests on beach promenades, Eugène Boudin painted seascapes and harbor scenes. The artist, who was celebrated as “king of the sky,” focused on the multicolored light of the setting sun, which he captured in fine gradations. Like William Turner before him, Boudin concentrated on the power of the light that dissolves contours.
Eugène Boudin 1824–1898: Retrospective Exhibtion, Hirschl & Adler Galleries, New York, November 2–26, 1966, no. 37
Louis Eugène Boudin: Precursor of Impressionism, Santa Barbara Museum of Art, October 8–November 21, 1976; Art Museum of South Texas, Corpus Christi, December 2, 1976–January 9, 1977; Museum of Fine Arts, St. Petersburg, Florida, January 18–February 27, 1977; Columbus Gallery of Fine Arts, March 10–April 24, 1977, no. 35 (?)
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
n.d., Galerie Durand-Ruel,
Paris, inv.-no. 2699, Coucher de soleil
n.d., Private collection, New York
n.d., Knoedler-Modarco, S.A., New York
n.d., Private collection, Palm Beach
August 2011, Art trade
Raymond Bouyer, “Eugène Boudin,” in Gazette des Beaux-Arts 2 (1899), p. 117–24, cf. ill. p. 121
Vittorio Pica, Gl'Impressionisti francesi, Bergamo 1908, cf. ill. p. 24 (Tramonto di Sole)
Claude Roger-Marx, E. Boudin, Paris 1927, ill. plate 34
Robert Schmit, Eugène Boudin 1824–1898: Catalogue raisonné de l’œuvre peint, vol. 2, Paris 1973, cf. no. 1935, p. 241, ill. p. 241
Louis Eugène Boudin. Precursor of Impressionism, exh. cat. Santa Barbara Museum of Art 1976, cf. no. 17
Impressionism: The Art of Landscape, exh. cat. Museum Barberini, Potsdam 2017, no. 5, p. 91, ill. p. 97
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