artist
Like Pierre Bonnard and Edouard Vuillard, Lebasque was most fond of painting quiet domestic scenes.
Lebasque began his training at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Angers near his home in Champigné. In 1885 he went to Paris for further training in the atelier of Leon Bonnat. There he made the acquaintance of Henri Matisse and Camille Pissaro who was also to be an influence on Lebasque.
Lebasque made his exhibition debut at the Salon des Independants in 1893. It was at this exhibition that he became friendly with Maximilien Luce and Paul Signac. It was at this time that Lebasque began to experiment with the principles of pointillism.
Description
Around 1925, Lebasque began to concentrate upon nudes as subjects for paintings, but his wife Marthe was no longer willing to pose in the nude. Lebasque and his wife then allowed a young model to wander and pose at random in the house.
provenance
Sale: Hotel Drouot, Paris, June 22, 1984, lot 48.
Private collection, Paris.
Private collection, Paris (acquired from the above).
Anderson Galleries, Los Angeles (acquired from the above in 1999).
Gail Feingarten Oppenheimer Collection*, Beverly Hills (acquired from the above in 2000).
Thence by descent until 2022.
The authenticity of this work has been confirmed by Maria de la Ville Fromoit and Christine Lenoir.
exhibitions
Los Angeles, Anderson Galleries, Fine 19th and 20th Century Art – Summer Reverie, June 15 – August 1, 2000.
