Null George Lennard Lewis,
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Coastal scenes with fishing vesse…

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George Lennard Lewis, British 1826-1913- Coastal scenes with fishing vessels and figures; watercolours on paper, one signed and dated 'L LEWIS / 94' (lower right), each 23 x 51.5 cm, a pair (2). Provenance: Private Collection, UK. Note: George Lennard Lewis came from a family of artists, as the son of the watercolourist George Robert Lewis (1782-1871) and the cousin of John Frederick Lewis (1804-1876). Lewis's travels around Europe undoubtedly influenced his output, with the artist repeatedly returning to the coastal landscapes for which he is best known.

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George Lennard Lewis, British 1826-1913- Coastal scenes with fishing vessels and figures; watercolours on paper, one signed and dated 'L LEWIS / 94' (lower right), each 23 x 51.5 cm, a pair (2). Provenance: Private Collection, UK. Note: George Lennard Lewis came from a family of artists, as the son of the watercolourist George Robert Lewis (1782-1871) and the cousin of John Frederick Lewis (1804-1876). Lewis's travels around Europe undoubtedly influenced his output, with the artist repeatedly returning to the coastal landscapes for which he is best known.

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2 publications : > Georges FROMENT - GUIEYSSE - "LA NOUVELLE CALEDONIE, un pays de Peuplement français" - Compte rendu de la mission sur l'état de la colonisation libre - Conférence faite le 20 MARS 1913 à l'assemblée générale de la société de Géographie commerciale - Edition du comité de l'Océanie française - 25 pages 21 x 13,5 cm. > Ministère de la France d'Outre Mer - Agence des colonies 1949. Situation / Geography / Administration and justice / Economic information / Tourism / Land, forestry, mining, customs, hunting and fishing regulations etc... 24 pages under cover 27 x 21 cm.

Estim. 100 - 150 GBP

ANDRÉ-LÉON VIVREL (1886-1976) Reunion of two paintings Port scenes with boats Oil on canvas The first signed lower left, the second signed lower right (Small gaps in the paint layer and soiling) A set of two paintings, oil on canvas, the first one signed lower left, the second one signed lower right 33 x 41 cm - 13 x 16 1/8 in. 33 x 41 cm - 13 x 16 1/8 in. Provenance Private collection, France Note "This is an acute 'eye', which translates with undeniable constructive power, and without any false note of very close tones, the hollow paths, lonely roads and wet skies of Brittany." Gérald Schurr, "Les petits maîtres de la peinture, valeur de demain", Volume 2, Paris: Les Éditions de l'Amateur, 1972, pp. 135 and 138 André-Léon Vivrel was born in Paris in 1886. At just 15, he decided to become a painter. He was supported in this by his mother, whom he describes as his first teacher, and his father, a wine merchant who won first prize for drawing in 1870. A pupil at the Lycée Louis-le-Grand, André-Léon Vivrel entered the Académie Julian in 1910. There, he studied with Paul Albert Laurens, and later with Marcel Baschet and Henri Royer at the École des Beaux-Arts. He rents a studio in Montmartre, at 65 rue Caulaincourt, just eight numbers from Auguste Renoir's. He first exhibited at the Salon des Artistes Français in 1913. Mobilized in 1914, he was awarded the Croix de Guerre for heroic conduct in 1917. After the war, he returned to his studio in Montmartre. He was awarded an honorable mention at the 1920 Salon, and the French government bought the two still lifes he exhibited at the Salon des indépendants. He also exhibited two portraits of Breton women painted on his return from a stay in Ploumanac'h (Côtesss d'Armor). In 1922, Vivrel appeared for the first time at the Salon de la Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts. After winning the Deldebat de Gonzalva prize in 1932, the following year he won a silver medal at the Salon des Artistes Français with "Le Temps des cerises". In 1934, Vivrel presented Bathers, the first in a series of large nudes exhibited at the Salon until 1943. The culmination of his research into the female nude, his 1939 "Baigneuses" won a gold medal at the Salon des Artistes Français. This final award crowned a silver medal won by Vivrel in 1937 at the Exposition Internationale des Arts et Techniques in Paris. Critics were unanimous in their praise of his talent, and in 1940, Louis Paillard wrote on the front page of the "Petit journal" of May 6, 1940: "André Vivrel, appears, I proclaim, as one of the best in this Salon [of French artists]". The exhibition "Vivrel - peintures récentes" (Vivrel - recent paintings), organized by the Galerie de Berri in May 1942, illustrated the diversity of Vivrel's genres in 31 paintings, but it was landscape that he explored most passionately. His land of choice was the Loiret, where his older brother Marcel owned a second home in Châtillon-sur-Loire, not far from Champtoceaux. In the aftermath of the Great War, destitute of money, he took refuge there to paint on the motif at lower cost. In the spring of 1926, Vivrel was again in Brittany, from where he brought back "Port de Camaret", exhibited at the 1926 Salon des Tuileries. A few years later, in 1934, he returned to Côtes d'Armor, where he composed seascapes that were also studies of the sky. Vivrel spent the summer of 1926 in Corsica. There, he produced watercolors that were exhibited in the autumn at the Galerie Georges Petit and then in New York. On each occasion, the critics were unanimous in praising their qualities: "André Vivrel's exhibition is the work of an artist who is sensitive and refined, while remaining larggge in his conceptions. His views of Corsica, Brittany and Paris are like his delicately harmonious flowers" ("La Semaine à Paris", November 12, 1926, p. 63). In 1928, he returned to the Midi. Capturing the warm, vibrant light of Provence, he painted "Le port de Saint-Tropez", exhibited the same year at the Salon des Indépendants. The Mediterranean theme was also evident at the Salon des Tuileries, where Vivrel presented harbor views and ocean liners, evidence of a flourishing tourist industry. When Vivrel wasn't on the roads of France, he took Paris as his model. He painted the alleyways of the Montmartre hilltop and the capital's monuments, such as Notre-Dame Cathedral, which he painted in series, following Monet's example. He liked to linger on the banks of the Seine, which offered him many unusual views of the city and inspired paintings reminiscent of Albert Lebourg's Parisian landscapes. Painting until his last breath, André-Léon Vivrel died in Bonneville-sur-Touques on June 7, 1976.

Estim. 80 000 - 120 000 GBP

Henry MORET (1856-1913) L'Averse, Brittany coast, 1902 Oil on canvas, signed lower left Exhibition label on reverse 65 x 92 cm PROVENANCE : Finistère private collection (Estate) EXHIBITIONS : 1966, Paris, Galerie Durand-Ruel, January 5 - 29, 1966, Henry Moret, no. 28. 1994, Paris, Galerie l'Ergastère, May 6 - July 13, 1994, Henry Moret, page 26, reproduction page 27. 2021, Quimper, musée des beaux-arts, June 24 - October 4, 2021, Henry Moret 1856-1913, De Pont-Aven à l'impressionnisme en Bretagne, no. 65 reproduction page 133. BIBLIOGRAPHY : Jean-Yves Rolland and Marie-Bénédicte Baranger, Henry Moret, Plomelin, Éditions Palantines, 2002, reproduction page 96. "The work of Henry Moret (1850-1913), a major painter of the Pont-Aven School, is now well known. But his life as an artist remains something of a mystery. He was a solitary master of his time. So when Wladislaw Slewinski organized a dinner to celebrate Paul Gauguin's return to Le Pouldu in 1894, Moret declined the invitation and preferred to go and work in Groix. His life as a landscape artist, constantly on the move from Houat to Ouessant, remains astonishing. In 1894, he chose Doëlan as his home port, more lively than Le Pouldu, and returned there after his long peregrinations to paint in his studio the drawings and gouaches he had taken on the spot. This gave him a certain stability, and came at a time when the famous Durand-Ruel gallery, from the heroic days of Impressionism, decided to buy his paintings and showcase his work in exhibitions. At the age of 44, Moret was able to lead a life that suited him: Doëlan was also, and perhaps above all, about hunting, fishing and playing cards in the bistro with his local friends. We know almost nothing about his itinerant life and the choices he made over the years, which led him to spend one month in Ouessant and the next in Douarnenez or Groix. He knows the Breton coasts inside out, and perhaps chooses according to the seasons and activities, such as seaweed burning. It also depends on the availability of accommodation and local contacts. So there are "privileged" places where he comes and goes to work. Raguénez en Névez has been one of them, at least since 1896. The site, close to Port-Manech, is easily accessible by boat from Doëlan, avoiding the long detour to Pont-Aven. Painting from the island of Raguénez is interesting for the painter because there's the island in the foreground, then the sea and finally the nearby coast in the background. L'averse, côte de Bretagne is part of a series of four paintings showing the house of the Marrec family, the island's farmers. Moret may well have stayed at this farm, for in his paintings he depicts the house from different angles, and it becomes the major element of the composition. And he seems familiar with the people, as evidenced by the subjects of two paintings. In L'averse côte de Bretagne, we see a man and two women, one with a red headdress, the other white, observing the state of the sea and a heavy shower in the sky. The fisherman is waiting for the weather to calm and has temporarily abandoned his two traps, oars and rigging, waiting to join his dinghy in the shelter below to go fishing. These three people, the man and the two women in different-colored headdresses, can be seen again in another painting, Gros temps à Raguénez (Sotheby's sale, London, June 29, 1994, lot 148), where they are closely observing the crashing waves, no doubt awaiting the arrival of the wreck's seaweed. In contrast to the painting L'Île de Raguénez, Bretagne (Washington, National Gallery of Art), where the house is shown in bright sunshine with a calm sea in an almost idyllic setting, Moret expresses great tension in L'averse côte de Bretagne, symbolically conveying the people's expectation of the violence of the elements. The canvas's foreground is built on a relationship between a strong green and a pink. This has characterized Moret's art ever since he adopted the principles of pontavenian synthetism through contact with Gauguin. The strong lines of the ground in the middle left and of the house fix the viewer's gaze. The whole of the upper part and towards the right are painted differently to convey ephemeral atmospheric effects. Painting rain or a downpour is undoubtedly one of the most difficult things a landscape artist can do. Such a scene and such a landscape may seem simple at first glance, but as the viewer observes, it becomes clear how Moret skilfully plays with a few elements to guide the eye, such as the piles of seaweed in the middle of the picture.

Estim. 14 000 - 15 000 GBP

HANNAH COLLINS (United Kingdom, 1956). "Kitchen. La Laboral Gijón". 2006 Digital print on canvas. Diptych. With Joan Prats gallery stamp on the back. Provenance: Joan Prats Gallery. Barcelona. Measurements: 192 x 274 cm. This photograph was part of the solo exhibition "A future Life", held in 2006 at the Joan Prats gallery in Barcelona. Hannah Collins' photographic work is a reflection on the passage of time and the presence of the human trace in different environments. Her photographs of interior spaces reveal an implicit, latent social history. For the artist, fleeting glimpses of cities do not provide a full understanding of their existence. Far from the documentary character, her scenes consciously mix that reality with a fiction that gives them a new meaning. The dreary, institutional "Kitchen" shown in this photograph is part of the artist's research on migrant lives and memory. It is worth linking it to a later series she would present at LABoral Centro de Arte y Creación Industrial in Gijón (2017), entitled "The Fragile Feast", which focused on kitchen photography, and opened a dialogue between culinary art and photographic art. A British artist and filmmaker, Hannah Collins studied at the Slade School of Fine Arts in London, and later extended her training in the United States thanks to a Fullbright scholarship (1978-79). Throughout her career she has held important solo exhibitions in leading art galleries and art centers in Europe and America, and has participated in group exhibitions held at the Victoria & Albert Museum in London (1987, 1989, 1989, 1989). Albert Museum in London (1987, 1989, 1989, 1995, 2002), the Centre National des Arts Plastiques in Paris (1989), the Museum of Modern Art in Kyoto (1990), the Fundació Joan Miró in Barcelona (1992, 1998), the Museo Español de Arte Moderno in Madrid (1994, 2008), the Saatchi Gallery in London (1994), the Helga de Alvear Gallery in Madrid (1999), the Tate Modern in London (2000), the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris (2006) and the Kulturhaus in Vienna (2011), among others. Based between London and Barcelona, in 1993 she was nominated for the Turner Prize, in 1991 she won the European Photography Award and in 2004 the Olympus Award. She is currently represented at the Tate Modern in London, the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris, the MNCA Reina Sofía in Madrid, the MACBA in Barcelona and other public and private collections in Europe and America.

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