Country Homes Antiques Stirling has dated this piece to the 1920s.
The work is signed lower right & dated 1920. A super subject by this much sought after painter.
Title: “Picking Flowers – Valle Du L’Arve”
Signature: Signed lower right & datd 1920
Medium: Oil on canvas
Provenance: Private french collection
Size: c. 15 x 18 inches
Condition: Very good for age – a few tiny marks
ABOUT THE ARTIST:
Born 8 February 1868, in St-Calais; died 1953, in Paris.
Painter, pastellist, watercolourist. Portraits, scenes with figures, interiors with figures, fishing scenes, landscapes with figures, landscapes, urban landscapes, seascapes.
Hervé-Mathé studied with Jean-Paul Laurens, Benjamin-Constant, Baschet and A. Maignan. A member of the Salon des Artistes Français, he directed the school of applied arts in Le Mans for 30 years. He painted the groves in Normandy, the Breton coastline, and views of Paris and Le Mans with a well-balanced palette and according to the tastes of the academy. In 2001, he was included in the exhibition Painters and the Sarthe Region ( Les Peintres et la Sarthe) at the Musée de la Reine Bérengère, Le Mans (19th century section) and at the Abbaye de l’Épau (20th century section).
Museum and Gallery Holdings
Le Mans: Rising Tide in Ploumanach
Auction Records
Bayeux, 3 May 1987: Wysteria in Spring (watercolour and gouache, 20¾ × 15 ins/53 × 38 cm) FRF 15,000
Paris, 8 Nov 1987: Fishermens’ House (oil on panel, 14½ × 17¾ ins/37 × 45 cm) FRF 13,000
Sceaux, 11 March 1990: Flower Market in Dinan (oil on cardboard, 14½ × 18 ins/37 × 46 cm) FRF 17,100
Versailles, 22 April 1990: Les Vosges – Underbrush (oil on canvas, 10 × 13¾ ins/24.5 × 35 cm) FRF 10,500
Paris, 30 May 1990: Departure of the Sardine Fishermen (oil on canvas, 18 × 24 ins/46 × 61 cm) FRF 55,000
Sceaux, 10 June 1990: Alpine Landscape in Summer (oil on canvas, 18 × 22 ins/46 × 55 cm) FRF 15,000
Paris, 21 Feb 1992: Luncheon by Lake Annecy (oil on panel, 13 × 16¼ ins/33 × 41 cm) FRF 12,500
Paris, 4 March 1992: Asnières-sur-Vègre (Sarthe) (oil on canvas, 23½ × 32 ins/60 × 81 cm) FRF 25,000
Paris, 1 Oct 1993: Brittany, Ploumanach (oil on panel, 7½ × 10½ ins/18.8 × 26.5 cm) FRF 3,000
Chaumont, 17 Sept 1995: Fishermen on Lake Annecy (oil on canvas, 15 × 18 ins/38 × 46 cm) FRF 5,000
Lyons, 6 Feb 2000: Little Girl in the Salon (1912, oil on canvas, 45 × 34 ins/115 × 87 cm) FRF 17,000
Paris, 17 March 2000: Old Blind Man (oil on canvas, 15 × 18 ins/38 × 46 cm) FRF 12,000
Bayeux, 14 July 2002: Return of the Fishing Fleet, Ville Close de Concarneau (oil on canvas, 15 × 18 ins/38 × 46 cm) EUR 2,600
Calais, 29 June 2003: La Rochelle Harbour (oil on panel, 18 × 15 ins/46 × 38 cm) EUR 3,900
Brest, 19 July 2003: Tuna Boat under Sail, Concarneau (watercolour, 17 × 12 ins/44 × 30 cm) EUR 1,800
Paris, 11 June 2004: Beaulieu-sur-Mer (1921, oil on canvas, 13 × 16 ins/33 × 41 cm) EUR 1,800
Brest, 7 July 2004: Kelp burning (oil on canvas, 18 × 22 ins/46 × 55 cm) EUR 1,800
Bibliography
Arpentinier, Jean: Sarthe, terre d’artistes, Éd. de la Reinette, Le Mans, 2001.
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