2 - Xavier Desparmet Fitz-Gerald (1861-1941) | French

Xavier Desparmet Fitz-Gerald (1861-1941) | French The Riverbank at Cormont, c. 1900's Oil on Canvas Signed: Signed and dated ‘X. Desparmet Fitz-Gerald 190[.]’ (lower right, the last figure indistinct); inscribed ‘Cormont’ (lower left). Dimensions: Framed: 70 × 84 cm | 27.6 × 33.1 in Artwork: 48.5 × 65 cm | 19.1 × 25.6 in Provenance: Acquired in France. Private Collection, Spain. Condition: Oil on canvas, unlined. A cross-shaped tear with associated paint loss in the sky, upper centre, about 8 cm across each way, unrestored and visible from the front; age craquelure across the sky; light surface dirt. Presented in a dark moulded frame with wear. Offered as a restoration project and priced accordingly. Please contact us to request a detailed Condition Report. Conditions of Sale: All lots are sold as is, in the condition described. The condition summary is given as a courtesy; a full condition report is available on request before the sale. Attributions are governed by our Terms and Conditions. All enquiries must be made before bidding; no further information can be provided after the sale. By placing a bid you confirm that you have read and accept our Terms and Conditions in full, as set out in the terms of this sale. Shipping: Aurora & Athena coordinates professional, insured shipping for every purchase through vetted logistics partners: packing, transport, insurance and the export paperwork are arranged on the buyer's behalf and charged at the provider's cost. Buyers are equally welcome to collect in Barcelona or to appoint a carrier of their own. Lots are released once the total purchase price has been received. For shipments outside the EU an export licence may be required and Spanish export duties may apply to certain higher-value works; these are the buyer's responsibility. No export tax applies within the EU. Full shipping and export information is available on request. -- A still stretch of water on a soft autumn morning: a rowing boat pulled up on the grass bank, a fisherman with his rod at the water’s edge, pollarded willows and a bare tree against a pale sky, and across the river a small town climbing its hill, red roofs and a church tower caught in the haze. The light is silvery, the handling fine and even, in the tradition of the late plein-air landscape of the Bordeaux school. Xavier Desparmet Fitz-Gerald (1861–1941), a painter from the Gironde who worked in Bordeaux and Algeria, is better remembered today as the author of the first catalogue of Goya’s paintings, L’Œuvre peint de Goya (1928–1950), still cited in the Goya literature. His own paintings are quiet river views of the Garonne and its neighbours, of which this is a characteristic example, signed and dated at the beginning of the century and inscribed with the place.