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PAUL CÉSAR HELLEU (1859-1927) Le bassin de Deauville signed "Helleu" (lower left) oil on canvas 2...

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PAUL CÉSAR HELLEU (1859-1927) Le bassin de Deauville signed Helleu (lower left) oil on canvas 2...
PAUL CÉSAR HELLEU
(1859-1927)
Le bassin de Deauville
signed "Helleu" (lower left)
oil on canvas
29 x 22 1/2 in. (75.5 x 57 cm)
painted in 1912
Estimate: $150,000-200,000 <p>Provenance
Albert Flamand, Paris
Léon Bailly, Paris
Mme. Rothschild, Paris
Mme. Pauline K. Cave, New York <p>Exhibited
Paris, Musée Galliera, Exposition Reminiscences, 1930, no. 93
Paris, Galerie Charpentier, Exposition Helleu, 1931, no. 20
Dieppe, Musée de Dieppe, Paul Helleu, June 7-September 17,
1962, no. 43
Sydney, David Jones Art Gallery and Browse and Darby, French English: Sculpture, Paintings, Drawings, February 6-March 1, 1986, p. 4, no. 15
Honfleur, Musée Eugène Boudin, Helleu, July 3-October 4,
1993, no. 30 (illustrated in color, p. 30)
Born in Vannes in 1859, Helleu entered the École des Beaux-Arts, Paris in 1870, where he studied under Jean-Léon Gérôme. Initially a passionate advocate of Ingresque Classicism, he was working in Paris during the early days of the Impressionist "revolution" and was influenced by the movement. This can be seen in this breathtakingly spontaneous, light-filled painting, which is relatively unusual in an oeuvre better known for belle epoque studies of women executed with a virtuoso linear quality. He was on close terms with many fellow artists, and his style shares elements with Sargent, Degas, Whistler, Alfred Stevens and Giovanni Boldini, all of whom were his associates. In 1885 he embarked upon an ambitious project to paint a panorama in London, something that awakened his interest in landscape painting but which is now lost.
Boating scenes were a great favorite of the Impressionists, from Boudin and Manet to Monet. In this lively canvas Helleu presents the viewer with a quintessentially Impressionist painting, both in its subject matter and its characteristically dashing technique.
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