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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Jun 19, 2015 | Heritage Auctions | Dallas | European Art Signature Auction | 69004 | $****** - ****** | Une allée dans le Parc du Château de Versailles |
paintings
41 x 33 cm (16.13 x 13 in)
oil on board
Signed lower left: Henri Martin
Sale: Ader-Tajan, Paris, November 22, 1989, lot 40
Private collection, Dallas.Henri Martin painted this charming landscape, Une allée dans le Parc du Château de Versailles, while visiting his good friend, the fellow Neo-Impressionist Henri Le Sidaner, who had moved to Versailles in 1903. Both artists specialized in garden subjects -- Martin repeatedly documented the pergola, terraces, pool, statues, and bridges on the grounds of his home, Marquayrol, near Toulouse -- and they found the Park of Versailles utterly irresistible. This sprawling property, designed by Andre Le Nôtre for Louis XIV, offered innumerable visual delights, not merely the famous, manicured gardens and bosquets (formal lines of trees), but also the Orangerie, Grand Canal, classical-themed marble and bronze statues, and over 30 fountains with complex water effects. Martin's stippled and rapid brushwork in Une allée dans le Parc du Château de Versailles captures not merely the changing light of the park, which casts dappled shadows on the foreground pathway, but also points of interest hidden within the verdant bosquets. Vertical white paint strokes between the trees on the left represent a spurting fountain
further down this left line of trees, are a standing man and a seated man, both reading newspapers
and in the left distance is a statue on a pedestal. In the far middle of the alley, a woman in a black dress and hat strolls toward the left. Meanwhile, along the right line of trees, is a bench and, possibly behind it, a group of three standing figures.On his multiple trips to Versailles with Le Sidaner, Martin painted other Pointillist, jewel-toned works featuring bosquets, fountains, and statues. Three studies comparable to Une allée dans le Parc du Château de Versailles highlight the same grove of trees with a shimmering basin in the middle of the alley (images in the Henri Martin archives). However, Martin's Une allée dans le Parc du Château de Versailles is exceptional in its inclusion of people, showing Versailles as a popular attraction for the leisured.We wish to thank Cyrille Martin and Marie-Anne Destrebecq-Martin for their gracious assistance in cataloguing this lot, which is accompanied by a certificate of authenticity from Cyrille Martin.
