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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Mar 27, 2019 | Artcurial | Paris | Old Master & XIXth Century Art | 404 | $****** - ****** | Sailboat in heavy weather |
paintings
90 x 85 cm (35.43 x 33.46 in)
Oil on canvas
Signed and dated 'J. BASTIEN-LEPAGE / 83 'bottom right
Acquired by the father of the current owners in the first part of the twentieth century (the family was native, just like the artist, Damvillers);
Private collection, Paris
Oil on canvas
Signed and dated 'J. BASTIEN-LEPAGE / 83 'bottom right
Sailing boat by stormy weather, oil on canvas, signed and dated, by J. Bastien-Lepage
h: 90 w: 85 cm
In 1883, when the disease struck him suddenly, he spent the summer in Concarneau on the advice of his doctors to rest. Not abandoning his pencils and brushes, our artist tries the navy and multiplies the studies of the sea and boats. The seductive work that we present fits into this corpus.
With impastos and a touch that Edward Manet just died would not have denied, he realizes an impressive navy confined to the study of sky. The frail boat is caught in the depths of the waves, the wind seeming to tear the too small sail almost already yielding to the pressure, the dark clouds taking possession of the sky not presaging the cessation of the repeated assaults of the wind. The sailboat will probably not hold. And in a premonitory vision, linking his destiny to that of this boat delivered on the canvas, Jules Bastien-Lepage, as the latter could not resist this storm with too powerful gusts, succumbed to the consequences of his illness the following year, we leaving a major work for the history of art, recently brought to light, having inspired the most famous modern artists in its wake.
