Edgar Degas (1834-1917)

Saint-Valry-sur-Somme

Details

Edgar Degas (1834-1917)
Degas, E.
Saint-Valry-sur-Somme
oil on canvas
20 x 30.5/8 in. (50.8 x 77.8 cm.)
Painted 1896-1898

Provenance

Louis Braquaval, Saint-Valry-sur-Somme.
Jacques Dubourg, Paris.
Roland, Browse & Delbanco, London (1957).
Lillian Browse, London.
Anon. sale, Christie's, London, 31 March 1987, lot 55.

Literature

T. Mullaly, "Subtlety of Early Degas," Daily Telegraph, 25 May 1959 (illustrated).
P. Brame and T. Reff, Degas et son oeuvre, London, 1984 (Supplment), p. 166, no. 154 (illustrated, p. 167).
R. Kendell, Degas Landscapes, New Haven, 1993, p. 262, no. 299 (illustrated in color).

Exhibited

London, Roland, Browse & Delbanco, English and French Landscapes of the 19th and 20th Centuries, June 1959, no. 5 (illustrated, p. 167). Bremen, Kunsthalle, Zruck Zur Natur, Die Knstlerkolonie von Barbizon, November 1977-January 1978, no. 470.

Lot Essay

"Of the dozen landscapes that Degas executed in oil or pastel during sojourns at Saint-Valry-sur-Somme with his friend [and fellow artist] Louis Braquaval in 1895-1898, this one is unique in showing the open fields outside the town, rather than the town itself. In its heavily impastoed surface, it is similar to A Saint-Valry-sur-Somme (Lemoisne, no. 1215) and Entre de village (Lemoisne, no. 1216)" (P. Brame and T. Reff, op. cit., p. 167).

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