Ref: 1439

HENRI EUGÈNE AUGUSTIN LE SIDANER (1862 – 1939)

Le berceau
1905

Oil on canvas.
Canvas Size: 24 x 29 in / 61 x 73.75cm,
Framed Size: 31.50 36.50 in / 80 x 93 cm,
Signed.

Exhibitions:
Pittsburgh, Carnegie Institute, Tenth Annual International Exhibition, 1905
Prague, Exposition Le Sidaner, 1907
Brussels, Galerie de l'Art Belge, Rétrospective Le Sidaner, 1951, no. 23
Paris, Galerie Brame et Lorenceau, Tables et fenêtres, 1952, no. 29
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Ref: 1439

HENRI EUGÈNE AUGUSTIN LE SIDANER (1862 – 1939)

Le berceau
1905

Oil on canvas.
Canvas Size: 24 x 29 in / 61 x 73.75cm,
Framed Size: 31.50 36.50 in / 80 x 93 cm,
Signed.

Exhibitions:
Pittsburgh, Carnegie Institute, Tenth Annual International Exhibition, 1905
Prague, Exposition Le Sidaner, 1907
Brussels, Galerie de l'Art Belge, Rétrospective Le Sidaner, 1951, no. 23
Paris, Galerie Brame et Lorenceau, Tables et fenêtres, 1952, no. 29
Chicago, Galleries Maurice Sternberg, Exposition Le Sidaner, 1968, no. 29, illustrated in the catalogue
Texas, Amarillo Art Center, Early French Moderns, 1982, no. 28

Literature
Farinaux-Le Sidaner, Yann. Le Sidaner, L'ouvre peint et gravé, Milan, 1989. Cat. no. 188, illustrated p. 98

Provenance:
Galleries Maurice Sternberg, Chicago (acquired by 1968),
Private collection, United States,
Acquired from the above by the present owner.

Biographical Details:

Le Sidaner travelled extensively throughout his life, visiting Holland, Belgium, Venice, London and New York; he also travelled throughout France. During his lifetime, he exhibited at the Paris Salon, the Galeries Georges Petit in Paris and the Goupil Gallery in London.
In 1900 he visited the tiny village of Gerberoy (Seine-et-Oise) where he later bought the house which became the inspiration for many of his paintings and where he painted many of his beautiful still lifes. Although the work of Henri Le Sidaner appears to be very personal to the artist, and (as he primarily painted at home) seems impervious to the artistic changes taking place at the beginning of the twentieth century, he was not totally unaffected by the development of Impressionism and Neo-Impressionism.

He worked in the realist style, but his love of penumbra and twilight create a poetic and dreamy quality to his technical expertise. There is also undoubtedly an influence of optics on Le Sidaner’s work. The atmosphere of his paintings, whether they are landscapes or still lifes result from both his delicate style of painting and his choice of subjects.