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HENRI MARTIN (1860-1943) An Auvergnat or Head of an Auvergna…
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HENRI MARTIN (1860-1943) An Auvergnat or Head of an Auvergna…
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Estimate €13,000 - €21,000
Voluntary lot
Description
HENRI MARTIN (1860-1943)
An Auvergnat or Head of an Auvergnat, circa 1896
Oil on panel
Monogrammed lower left
Study of houses on the reverse
Oil on panel, monogrammed lower left, a study of houses on the reverse
40 x 31,5 cm - 15 3/4 x 12 3/8 in.
Marie-Anne Destrebecq-Martin and Charles-Louis Duriez-Destrebecq have confirmed the authenticity of this work. A notice of inclusion in the archives for the catalogue raisonné of Henri-Jean-Guillaume Martin, dated 15 August 2025, will be given to the buyer.
Oil on panel, monogrammed lower left, a study of houses on the reverse
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)
Exhibition(s) :
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, n° unknown
Possibly: Salon, Union artistique de Toulouse, Toulouse, Capitole, 1898, n°359
Possibly: Exposition internationale et coloniale, Rochefort-sur-Mer, 1898, no. unknown
Related work(s) :
Henri Martin (1860-1943), Un Auvergnat, 1897 ?, oil, medium and format unknown
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 on numerous occasions 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 cunning half-smile, his vague, shifty gaze. It's very good, it's perfect, and the success can be explained."
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