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HENRI MARTIN (1860-1943) An Auvergnat or Head of an Auvergna…
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Lot no. 29
Description
HENRI MARTIN (1860-1943)
An Auvergnat or Head of an Auvergnat, circa 1896
Oil on panel
Signed with the monogram lower left
Study of houses on the back
Oil on panel, signed with the artist's monogram lower left, a study of houses on the reverse
40 x 31,5 cm - 15 3/4 x 12 3/8 in.
A certificate from Madame Marie-Anne Destrebecq-Martin, dated 15 August 2025, will be given to the buyer.
Provenance
- Sale, 20th Century Art and Design, Roseberys, London, 26 June 2018, lot 319 (titled Portrait of a farm labourer)
- Private collection, France (acquired in previous sale)
Related works
Henri Martin (1860-1943), Un Auvergnat, 1897 [?], oil, medium and format unknown
Exhibitions
- Possibly: Salon, Société des Amis des Arts de Bordeaux, Bordeaux, Galerie de la Société des Amis des Arts de Bordeaux, 1897, n°403
- Possibly: Exhibition, Société des Amis des Arts de Douai, Douai, Hôtel de ville, 1897, unknown number
- Possibly: Salon, Union artistique de Toulouse, Toulouse, Capitole, 1898, n°359
- Possibly: Exposition internationale et coloniale, Rochefort-sur-Mer, 1898, unknown number
Note
Madame Marie-Anne Destrebecq-Martin directly links our work with another head of an Auvergnat, featuring the same model. This painting, or ours as it is impossible to determine exactly which it is, was exhibited many times in the years 1897-1898. It was highly praised in La Dépêche on 5 June 1898: "We are allowed to talk about beautiful things, among which you will understand that we rank L'Auvergnat and Derniers rayons, by M. Henri Martin. I think the general favour went to L'Auvergnat. This peasant, shattered by years and years of hard labour, looking in some way like a plant, a tree growing out of the soil he has dug so hard, is very appealing with his baked, parchment-like face, his sad, cunning half-smile, his vague, shifty gaze. It's very good, it's perfect, and its success can be explained."
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