Eugène Boudin (1824-1898)
PROPERTY FROM A DISTINGUISHED ENGLISH COLLECTION
Eugène Boudin (1824-1898)

Scène à la plage

Details
Eugène Boudin (1824-1898)
Scène à la plage
stamped with the initials 'E.B’ (Lugt 828; lower right)
pastel on paper
8 ½ x 11 3/8 in. (21.6 x 28.9 cm.)
Provenance
Mrs. John Davison Rockefeller Jr., by 1928, and thence by descent to Laurence S. Rockefeller, New York (no. WC-105).
Galerie Eric Coatalem, Paris.
Acquired from the above by the present owner in 2006.

Lot Essay

This work will be included in the third supplement of the catalogue raisonné of the work of Eugène Boudin being prepared by Manuel Schmit.

“To steep oneself in the sky. To capture the tenderness of the clouds. To let the cloud masses float in the background, far off in the grey mist, and then make the blue blaze forth” – Eugène Boudin

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