Les ruines du Château de Crozant

Details

Armand Guillaumin (1841-1927)
Les ruines du Château de Crozant
signed 'Guillaumin' (lower right); inscribed and dated 'Crozant Aot 1913 Soir' (on the reverse)
oil on canvas
18 3/8 x 25 5/8 in. (46.5 x 65.2 cm.)
Painted in August 1913

Provenance

Galerie Durand-Ruel, Paris.
Galerie Royer, Paris (no. 301).
Anonymous sale, Christie's, London, 4 December 1984, lot 419.
Private collection, France, by whom acquired at the above sale; sale, Sotheby's, London, 21 October, 2003, lot 25.
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner.

Literature

G. Serret and D. Fabiani, Armand Guillaumin, Catalogue raisonné de l'oeuvre peint, Paris, 1971, no. 717 (illustrated).

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Lot Essay

From September 1891, Guillaumin made several journeys to Crozant, a small village on the Creuse, not far from Fresselines, where Monet had stayed for three months in the spring of 1889. 'In the whole valley of the Creuse, Crozant is unique, for it lies within the centre of a stretch of the river that passes through an intrusive flow of ferriferous granite which ages to soft brownish-pink... All Guillaumin's Crozant paintings were done within this area. While the rest of the valley of the Creuse is colourful, nowhere does it achieve the same richness that it does in the region of Crozant' (C. Gray, Armand Guillaumin, Conneticut, 1972, pp. 44-48).

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