Maximilien Luce
The Seine at the Pont Saint-Michel, 1900
On view at Alte Nationalgalerie, Berlin
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Oil on canvas, 89,2 x 116,2 cm
signed and dated lower right: Luce 1900
Inv.-no. MB-Luc-01
Around 1900, Luce produced four views of the Pont Saint-Michel. His depictions of the dynamic metropolis echoed the Paris paintings of colleagues such as Gustave Caillebotte. Stylistically, the composition is a hybrid between the Impressionists’ free bravura brushwork and the mosaic structure of pointillist painting.
Le Paysage français de Corot à nos jours, Galerie Charpentier, Paris, 1942, no. 117
(probably) Maximilien Luce: 1858–1941, Maison de la Pensée Française, Paris, 1958, no. 25 (titled Quai Saint-Michel)
Maximilien Luce: Époque néo-impressionniste, Galerie H. Odermatt - Ph. Cazeau, Paris, 1988, no. 47
Impressionism: A World View, Nassau County Museum of Art, Roslyn Harbor, New York, March 19–July 10, 2022
by 1942, (probably) Count Arnauld Doria Collection, Paris
November 8, 1999, Christie’s, New York, lot 152
November 8, 1999–May 9, 2007, private collection, Switzerland, acquired at the above sale
May 9, 2007, Christie's, New York, Impressionist and Modern Art Evening Sale, lot 34, consigned by the above
n.d.–2007, Richard Green, London
2007–November 14, 2022, private collection, New York, acquired from the above
November 14, 2022, Sotheby’s, New York, Modern Evening Auction, lot 137, consigned by the above
Phillipe Cazeau: Maximilien Luce, Lausanne and Paris 1982, p. 108.
Denise Bazetoux: Maximilien Luce: Catalogue de l’œuvre peint, vol. II, Paris 1986, no. 307, p. 83.
Maximilien Luce: Époque néo-impressionniste, exh. cat. Galerie H. Odermatt - Ph. Cazeau, Paris 1988, no. 47.
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