Artist:
Paul Signac
Artwork:
Venise. Le Redempteur
Size:
65.1 x 80.6 cm
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Creation year:
1908
Marks:
Signed and dated 'P Signac 1908' (lower left); signed, dated and inscribed 'Venise 1908 Le Redempteur P. Signac' (on the stretcher)
Category:
Paintings
Provenance:
Galerie Bernheim-Jeune, Paris (no. 16846), by whom acquired directly from the artist, until at least 1914; Van Beuningen collection, Rotterdam & Switzerland, by 1914, and thence by descent, until at least 1982; Galerie Ivo Bouwman, The Hague, by 1985; Ann Kendall Richards, Inc., New York; Acquired from the previous by the family of the present owners, on 17 July 1985
Exhibition history:
Paris, Salon des Independents, 1909, no. 1470; Dusseldorf, Galerie Flechtheim, Exposition Paul Signac, 1913, no. 15, n.p; this exhibition later travelled to Paris, Galerie Bernheim-Jeune, November - December 1913; Copenhagen, Musee Royal, Exposition d'art Francais du XIXe siecle, May - June 1914, no. 194, p. 44; Paris, Ligue Navale francaise, Exposition des Peintres de la Mer, April - May 1917, no. 61, p. 18 (titled 'Venise, eglise du Redempteur'); Amsterdam, Kunsthandel Huinck & Scherjon, Paul Signac, 1863-1935, November 1935, no. 12, n.p. (illustrated n.p.)