Prestigious Provenance Exhibited Maurice Asselin (1882-1947) Camden Town Group , Walter Sickert's Best Friend, Amsterdam Watercolour

Maurice Asselin is an artist I appreciate a lot, and so I am delighted to offer a work by him that has an extraordianry provenance! It was exhibited in 1943 in the exhibition"100 watercolours by Maurice Asselin selected from 30 years of his career" at the Galerie Charpentier in Paris.

The Galerie Charpentier - set the Paris townhouse which now houses Sotheby's Paris - was one of the most reputed, innovative and exciting Galleries in Europe, which exhibited both old and new Masters In the period between 1940 and 1960, it presented one man shows of Maillol, Dunoyer de Segonzac, Vlaminck, Modigliani, Utrillo - and also Maurice Asselin (twice!)

Our watercolour from this prestious exhibition dates from 1925.As number 30 in the exhibition, it is titled "Morning in Amsterdam"

It measures 33,5 x 25 cm and is still in its original frame, with the exhibition label and number on the verso. The framed size is 55 x 46 cm

Maurice Asselin, Walter Sickert's best friend and the French artist most closely connected to the Camden Town Group, is one of the most exciting French artists of his generation. This was felt by many of his contemporaries, including Sickert and Roger Fry.

Maurice Asselin had a one-man show in London with Carfax and Co in 1915, a gallery close to the Camden Group which, according to Paul Nash, was 'probably the most distinguished and exclusive gallery in London at this time’.

An exhibition of the artist's work has also taken place at the Museum of Pont Aven since Asselin, when living in Brittany, he belonged to Pont Aven movement.

Art critics descibe Maurice Asselin's work as litterary, sensitive, restrained. Walter Sickert calls him: "not only one of the most distinguished artists among the younger artists, but also one of the many sane and normal individualities who are really the important constituants of modern French painting".

Paintings by the artist are in museums all over the world, from Moscow to New York via Christchurch, New Zealand. Four of his works are in the Pompidou Centre in Paris. The Fitzwilliam in Cambridge owns an oil, as does the Hepworth, Wakefield.

Please visite my stock page for a second painting by Maurice Asselin!

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