HENRI-EUGÈNE LE SIDANER La Maison au clair de lune.
Lithograph on Chine volant, 1909. 227x160 mm; 9x6 1/4 inches, full margins. Artist's proof, aside from the book edition published in La Gazette des Beaux-Arts. Signed and annotated in pencil, lower margin. A superb impression of this extremely scarce lithograph.
Le Sidaner (1862-1939), a contemporary of the Post Impressionists, was an intimist artist known for his paintings of domestic interiors and quiet street scenes. His style contained elements of Impressionism with the influences of Édouard Manet, Claude Monet and of the Pointillists. Le Sidaner favoured a subdued use of color, preferring nuanced greys and opals applied with uneven, dappled brushstrokes to create atmosphere and mysticism. A skilled nocturne painter, he traveled widely throughout France and Europe before settling at Gerberoy in the Picardy countryside from where he painted for over thirty years Bibliothèque Nationale 7.
