Henri Le Sidaner (1862-1939)
La maison un soir de lune, Gerberoy
colored wax crayons on paper
16 x 13 in. (40.6 x 33 cm.)
Drawn in 1925
Provenance
Louis Le Sidaner, Paris (by descent from the artist; until 1972).
Wolf Stubbe, Hamburg.
Anon. sale, Hauswedell & Nolte, Hamburg, 9 June 2000, lot 1861.
Literature
Y. Farinaux-Le Sidaner, Le Sidaner: L'oeuvre peint et gravé, Paris, 1989, p. 368, no. 1170 (illustrated).
Exhibited
London, Hayward Gallery, and Liverpool, Walker Art Gallery, French Symbolist Painters: Moreau, Puvis de Chavannes, Redon and their followers, June-September 1972, no. 110 (illustrated, p. 66).
Madrid, Museo Español de Arte Contemporáneo, and Barcelona, Museo de Arte Moderno, El Simbolismo en la Pintura Francesa, October 1972-January 1973, no. 95.
Lot Essay
The present work is a study for a large oil painting of the same title (Y. Farinaux-Le Sidaner, no. 547).