6 - Louis Iselin | French

Louis Iselin | French Boats on the Shore at Sunset, 1938 Oil on Panel Signed: Signed and dated ‘L. Iselin 1938’ (lower left). Dimensions: Framed: 61 × 111 cm | 24 × 43.7 in Artwork: 50 × 100 cm | 19.7 × 39.4 in Provenance: Acquired in France. Private Collection, Spain. Condition: Oil on wood panel. The paint layer is stable; light surface dirt and a few small scuffs along the lower edge; some rubbing to the gilding of the carved frame. 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 wide, panoramic shore at the end of the day: three boats drawn up on the dark red beach, a breakwater of white buildings running out into the bay, a line of blue hills under a sky that turns from violet to yellow and green where the sun has just gone. The water is laid in with short, broken strokes of turquoise, lilac and lemon that catch the last light, in the divisionist manner that French and Mediterranean painters kept alive well into the 1930s. The format, twice as wide as it is high, and the low horizon make this a painting about sky and water rather than incident; the boats are the only solid things in it. It is dated 1938 and painted on a wooden panel, framed in a carved and gilded frame of the period.