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MAXIMILIEN LUCE Rolleboise.
Oil on canvas, circa 1930-40. 467x650 mm; 18⅛x25⅝ inches. With the artist's signature estate stamp, lower left recto.
Provenance: Estate of the artist, Paris, with the signature stamp, lower left recto, and the number "LN427" in ink on the stretcher verso; thence by descent to Frédéric Luce, Paris (the artist's son); private collection, New Jersey.
Rolleboise is a commune in the in the Île-de-France region in north-central France. Luce (1858-1941) traveled frequently to this countryside area to the north of his home in Paris to sketch and paint the verdant landscape. Luce began his artistic career as an illustrator and, following military service during the 1870s, fell under the artistic influence of the Pointillists, most notably Georges Seurat. During the 1890s, Luce befriended Camille Pissarro and his work thereafter took on a Neo-Impressionist style influenced by Pissarro. In the spring of 1892 Luce traveled with Pissarro to London. Later that year, he visited Saint-Tropez with Paul Signac, and in the summer of 1893, he went to Brittany. Luce depicted a diverse range of subjects in his works over a long career. He most frequently created landscapes, but his other works include portraits, floral still lifes, bathers, and images of laborers. Luce exhibited in every show at the Salon des Indépendants, alongside Odilon Redon, Henri-Édmond Cross, Paul Signac, Paul Cézanne, Paul Gauguin, Henri Toulouse-Lautrec, Vincent van Gogh, Georges Seurat, Henri Rousseau, Pierre Bonnard, and Henri Matisse, from 1887 until his death in 1941.
