LOT DETAILS

Materials:

oil on canvas

Measurements:

35.12 in. (89.20 cm.) (height) by 45.79 in. (116.30 cm.) (width)

Markings:

signed and dated 'P.Signac 1907' (lower left)

Exhibited:

Dusseldorf, Galerie Alfred Flechtheim, Paul Signac, November - December 1913, no. 18; this exhibition later travelled to Paris, Galerie Bernheim-Jeune. Venice, XII Esposizione Internazionale d'Arte della Città di Venezia, 1920, no. 1065. Paris, Musée national d'Art moderne, P. Signac, October - December 1951, no. 29 (titled 'La Corne d'or. Les caïques'). Rennes, Hôtel de ville, Le Fauvisme, April - May 1952, no. 3. Dusseldorf, Kunstverein für die Rheinland und Westfalen, October - November 1952, no. 15. London, Marlborough Fine Art, Paul Signac, 1863-1935: Retrospective Exhibition, March - April 1954, no. 18. Paris, Grand Palais, Hommage à Paul Signac et ses amis, April - May 1955, no. 79. London, Marlborough Fine Art, La création de l'oeuvre chez Paul Signac, April - May 1957, no. 224.

Literature:

G. Lévy & P. Signac, Pré-catalogue, circa 1929-1932, p. 390 (titled 'La Corne d'Or'). F. Cachin, Signac, Catalogue raisonné de l'oeuvre peint, Paris, 2000, no. 464, p. 287 (illustrated).

Provenance:

Galerie Bernheim-Jeune, Paris (no. 16404). Paul Vallotton, Lausanne, by 1913. Anonymous sale, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 10 June 1937, lot 57. Mme Cachin-Signac & Dr Charles Cachin, by whom acquired at the above sale and thence by descent. Anonymous sale, Christie's, New York, 6 May 2008, lot 11. Acquired at the above sale by the present owner.