LOT DETAILS

Materials:

oil on canvas

Measurements:

25.63 in. (65.10 cm.) (height) by 31.73 in. (80.60 cm.) (width)

Markings:

signed and dated 'P Signac 1908' (lower left); signed, dated and inscribed 'Venise 1908 Le Redempteur P. Signac' (on the stretcher)

Exhibited:

Paris, Salon des Indépendents, 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, Musée Royal, Exposition d'art Francais du XIXe siècle, May - June 1914, no. 194, p. 44. Paris, Ligue Navale française, Exposition des Peintres de la Mer, April - May 1917, no. 61, p. 18 (titled 'Venise, église du Rédempteur'). Amsterdam, Kunsthandel Huinck & Scherjon, Paul Signac, 1863-1935, November 1935, no. 12, n.p. (illustrated n.p.).

Literature:

F.R. Kemp, L'Aurore, Paris, 25 March 1909, p. 1. P. Forthuny, Le Matin, Paris, 25 March 1909, p. 2. R. Chavance, L'Autorité, Paris, 25 March 1909, p. 2. L. Vauxcelles, Le Gil Blas, Paris, 25 March 1909, pp. 1-2. H. Pellier, La Petite République, Paris, 25 March 1909. A. Salmon, L'Intransigeant, Paris, 27 March 1909, p. 2. Le Cri de Paris, Paris, 28 March 1909, p. 9. A. Raimbault, L'Action française, Paris, 31 March 1909, p. 3. J. Eggiman, Critique indépendante, Paris, 1 April 1909. A. Redan, Revue de Paris, Paris, 1 April 1909, p. 777. G. Geffroy, La Depêche, Paris, 3 April 1909, pp. 1-2. E. Hoffmann, Journal des artistes, Paris, 4 April 1909. Montmartre La Chapelle, Paris, 17 April 1909. L. de Saint-Valéry, Revue des Beaux-Arts, Paris, 7 December 1913, p. 4. L. Cousturier, P. Signac, Paris, 1922, pl. 8 (illustrated). G. Besson, 1935, pl. 12 (illustrated). F. Cachin, Signac, Catalogue raisonné de l'oeuvre peint, Paris, 2000, no. 472, p. 290 (illustrated).

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 above by the family of the present owners, on 17 July 1985.