Although Henri Le Sidaner was studying painting under the staunchly academic Alexander Cabanel by the age of twenty, he soon abandoned the tight rigidity of his master’s technique for the loose expressions of the contemporary Impressionists and Post-Impressionists. Well-traveled in Europe and even America, Le Sidaner finally settled in the small village of Gerberoy in 1900. It is in this picturesque medieval town where the artist found the subject for many of his most charming landscapes. This vision of the village enveloped in lavender hues punctuated by the occasional sparkle of warm yellow brilliantly captures the poetic shifts of light in the gloaming.
Details
- Artist Name: Henri Le Sidaner (French, 1862-1939)
- Title: Small Village: Gerberoy
- Date: 1937
- Medium: Oil on canvas
- Dimensions: 49-3/8 x 59 in. (125.4 x 149.9 cm)
- Credit Line: Norton Simon Art Foundation, Gift of Mr. Norton Simon
- Accession Number: M.1979.53.P
- Copyright: © Norton Simon Art Foundation
Object Information
[Arthur Tooth & Sons, Ltd., London].
(sale, London, Sotheby’s, 30 April 1964, lot 158, ill., as La petite ville: Berberoy (Oise), to);
[Arthur Tooth & Sons, Ltd., London, sold 1965 to];
Norton Simon, Los Angeles, N.65.5.P., gift 31 December 1979 to;
Norton Simon Art Foundation.
Exhibition Le Sidaner
- Paris, Galerie Charpentier, 1939-02 to 1939-03
[on loan]
- Glasgow, City Art Gallery, 1939-04 to 1939-04
Retrospective Henri Le Sidaner, 1862-1939
- Paris, Musée Galliéra, 1948-04 to 1948-04
Le Sidaner Retrospective Exhibition
- Galeries de l'Art Belge, 1951-04 to 1951-05
Peintre français
- London, Arthur Tooth and Sons, Ltd., 1960-07 to 1960-07
- L'Illustration, 1939,
- Farinaux-Le Sidaner, Yann, Le Sidaner, l'oeuvre peint et gravé, 1989, no. 796 p. 289
- Masterpieces from the Norton Simon Museum, 1989, p. 170
- Campbell, Sara, Collector Without Walls: Norton Simon and His Hunt for the Best, 2010, cat. 272 p. 278
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