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HENRI LEBASQUE Marine (Barques).
Watercolor and pencil on paper, circa 1900. 316x393 mm; 12 1/2x15 1/2 inches. Signed in pencil, lower right recto.
Provenance: Galerie Europe, Paris, with the label; private collection, New York.
Exhibited: "Exposition du Toulouse Lautrec a Marquet," Galerie Marcel Bernheim, Paris, June 22-July 28, 1961, number 78.
Lebasque (1865-1937), known as "the painter of joy and light," was born in 1865 in Champigné, Maine-et-Loire, France. This watercolor sketch of a maritime scene is representative of his fascination with the dazzling French Riviera, a common theme in his œuvre. Lebasque was friends with impressionists Camille Pissarro (1830-1903) and Auguste Renoir (1841-1919), as well as Henri Matisse (1869-1954), with whom he was a founding member of the Salon D'Automne in Paris.
