Charles Bargue Paintings & Artwork for Sale | Charles Bargue Art Value Price Guide

Jun. 05, 2024
Charles Bargue Drawing
Est: $500 - $700
(French, 1826-1883) Studying a Drawing, possibly a self portrait, signed lower left 'Barque', pencil on wove paper, 7-1/2 x 5-3/4 in. (16.51 x 10.80 cm.); black stained frame, 14-1/4 x 11-5/8 x 7/8 in. Provenance: Paul W. Cooley, Moyer Gallery, No.119; The Collection of Clare and Jared Edwards, West Hartford, Connecticut
Brunk Auctions
May. 25, 2024
Charles Bargue
Est: $50,000 - $70,000
(France, 1825-1883) Oil on canvas work titled, "The Arab Smoker." Exceptionally rendered Orientalist piece signed lower mid right. The work is in original unrestored condition with only a very small tear near the elbow of the subjects measuring 1". The work has not been re lined or cleaned. Bargue, aside from being the incredibly accomplished and talented painter that he was, is also known for his connection to Vinceent Van Gogh. Van Gogh trained himself to draw by repeated study and work with the Charles Bargue Drawing Course which then was mail order in France. There is a nearly identical, yet smaller, work in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum that is possibly a study for this work. Canvas Size: H17 1/2" W11 3/8" (without frame) We are honored to offer this work on behalf of a surviving member of the Hill family of Aiken. Excellent discovery from a collection in one of South Carolina's most iconic towns.
Wooten & Wooten Auctioneers
Jun. 06, 2018
Charles Bargue (French, 1826-1883) Study for L'almée watercolor and pencil on paper laid down on board 10 ½ x 7 ¼ in. (26.7 x 18.4 cm.)
Est: $1,000 - $1,500
Charles Bargue (French, 1826-1883)Study for L'alméewith vente stamp and dated 1883 (lower right)watercolor and pencil on paper laid down on board10 ½ x 7 ¼ in. (26.7 x 18.4 cm.)
Christie's
Aug. 24, 2016
CHARLES BARGUE (French, 1825-1883) ARABIAN GENTLEMAN.
Est: $600 - $900
Pencil on paper. Housed in an antique gesso decorated frame behind mat with glass. Signed lower right "Ch. Bargue 79" SIZE: Sight: 12" x 8-1/2". Overall: 18" x 15" CONDITION: Some foxing & soiling to paper, otherwise good 50898-14
James D. Julia
May. 24, 2016
ATTRIBUÉ À CHARLES BARGUE (1826-1883) LE FUMEUR DE NARGHILÉ
Est: €3,000 - €5,000
ATTRIBUÉ À CHARLES BARGUE (1826-1883) LE FUMEUR DE NARGHILÉ THE NARGHILE SMOKER Huile sur toile. 46,5 X 33cm (18 5/16 X 13 IN.)
Tajan
Nov. 27, 2015
Bargue, Charles: Fischersfrau mit Meerschaumpfeife
Est: €600 - €750
Studie einer bretonischen Fischersfrau mit Meerschaumpfeife. Öl auf Leinwand, auf Malkarton kaschiert. 36,2 x 14 cm.
Bassenge Auctions
Jan. 06, 2013
attrib CHARLES BARGUE (French, 1826-1883) seated
Est: $3,000 - $5,000
attrib CHARLES BARGUE (French, 1826-1883) seated Turkish man with hooka o/c (canvas has Paris stamp), 18.5 by 13 in., ornate gilt frame remains of red wax seal on stretcher
CRN Auctions
Dec. 11, 2012
Attributed to Charles Bargue (1826-1883), French PORTRAIT OF AN OFFICER IN ARMOUR BEFORE A LANDSCAPE; Oil on canvas; strengthened signature lower right21.5" x 17" - 54.6 x 43.2 cm.
Est: $1,500 - $2,000
Attributed to Charles Bargue (1826-1883), French PORTRAIT OF AN OFFICER IN ARMOUR BEFORE A LANDSCAPE; Oil on canvas; strengthened signature lower right21.5" x 17" - 54.6 x 43.2 cm.
Waddington's
May. 26, 2011
Charles Bargue (French, 1826-1883)
Est: $7,500 - $9,500
"The Painter". Oil on canvas, unsigned, approx. 8-3/4" x 6-1/4", framed in a wide ornate gilt frame overall approx. 14-1/2" x 12". Partial label on back of stretchers attributing the study to Bargue. Exhibition label verso from the Dahesh Museum of Art, "Charles Bargue: The Art of Drawing", November 25, 2003 - February 8, 2004, also a Cleveland Museum of Art Registrar's label. Prov: Muriel S. Butkin Estate, auction September, 2009, lot 17. Muriel S. Butkin was an important benefactor and philanthropist to the Cleveland Museum of Art. Together with her husband, the late Noah Butkin, they donated many works to the art museum over the years including an extensive collection of French old master paintings and drawings. In addition, Mrs. Butkin's entire residual estate was left to the Cleveland Museum of Art to be sold to benefit the museum's endowment and capital campaigns. The Butkin residence in Shaker Heights was known by curators, scholars, and collectors alike as a salon of rare distinction, mixing important artwork with fine Continental furniture, porcelains, and English silver. This will be an exclusive auction, with items only from Mrs. Butkin's estate. Items in the sale will include furniture, fine silver, decorative arts, fine porcelains, netsuke collection and works of art.
Aspire Auctions Fine Art & Antiques
May. 21, 2011
AFTER CHARLES BARGUE, (French, 1825-1883), SEATED BASHI-BAZOUK, oil on canvas;, 18 1/2 x 13 inches
Est: $1,000 - $1,500
AFTER CHARLES BARGUE (French, 1825-1883) SEATED BASHI-BAZOUK oil on canvas; unsigned; frame bears "Bargue" plaque; verso canvas stamped vielle M .de Couleurs, Paris; verso stretcher bears red wax seal fragment (illegible); 18 1/2 x 13 inches
Grogan & Company
Jul. 21, 2010
Charles Bargue (French, 1826-1883) "Joinville le Pont", study of trees
Est: £200 - £300
"Joinville le Pont", study of trees initialled B and with Vente Barque 1883 stamp (lower right) pencil 16 x 28.5cm (6 5/16 x 11 1/4in). together with a watercolour of Martigues 1907, by Gabriel Deneux. (2)
Bonhams
Mar. 20, 2010
Charles Bargue drawing
Est: $200 - $400
Charles Bargue (French 1826-1883)- The Courtyard- graphite with white highlights on tan laid paper, artist's stamp in red recto (Lugt 218bis), one spot of stain in image, 3 old glue spots from hinges verso, two masking tape hinges at top edge. 15 3/4 x 10 «'' 400 x 267 mm
Rachel Davis Fine Arts
Jan. 22, 2009
Charles Bargue (French, 1826-1883)
Est: £3,000 - £5,000
Charles Bargue (French, 1826-1883) Le jeu d'échecs oil on panel 6½ x 9 1/8 in. (16.5 x 23.3 cm.)
Christie's
Dec. 16, 2008
Charles Bargue (d.1883)
Est: £500 - £700
Charles Bargue (d.1883) Study of felled tree trunks, Joinville Le Pont the first signed 'B' and stamped with studio sale stamp, 1885 (lower right) and inscribed 'Joinville le pont.' (upper right) black chalk laid onto board 6½ x 11½ in. (16.5 x 29 cm.); and A watercolour of a seascape at Martigues by Gabriel-Charles Deneux (b.1856) (2)
Christie's
Jul. 02, 2008
Le jeu d'échecs sur la terrasse: Playing chess on the terrace
Est: £5,000 - £7,000
Charles Bargue (French, 1826-1883) Le jeu d'échecs sur la terrasse: Playing chess on the terrace oil on panel 6½ x 9 1/8 in. (16.5 x 23.3 cm.)
Christie's
Apr. 19, 2006
Charles Bargue (French, 1826-1883)
Est: $8,000 - $12,000
Study for Arnautes jouant aux echecs signed '.Ch. Bargue.' (lower left) oil on paper 8 x 5 1/2 in. (20.3 x 14 cm.)
Christie's
Nov. 16, 2005
f - CHARLES BARGUE FRENCH, 1826-1883
Est: £100,000 - £150,000
PROPERTY OF A PRIVATE COLLECTOR MARCHAND ORIENTAL 35 by 24cm., 13 3/4 by 9 1/2 in. signed and dated BARGUE / 71 l.r. oil on panel We are grateful to Gerald Ackerman for his assistance in cataloguing this work, which will be illustrated in colour in the new edition of his catalogue raisonné on the artist. PROVENANCE Julius Weitzner, New York Probably, Gump Department Store, San Francisco (by 1945) Possibly, Goupil Possibly, Knoedler, NY (purchased from the above) Purchased by the aunt of the present owner in New York in the 1960s; thence by descent LITERATURE Gerald Ackerman, Bargue-Gérôme 'Drawing Course', Paris, 2000, p. 300, no. 39, catalogued and illustrated (incorrectly dated to 1877) NOTE Painted in 1871, and predating a similar composition by the artist (see Ackerman no. 38, p. 300) by six years, this is one of Bargue's earliest recorded orientalist works. Until now, Marchand oriental was known only from old black and white photographs. One of them, in the archives of the Getty Museum, bears a stamp, From the Julius Weitzner file, on the reverse, along with a handwritten inscription to someone at Gump's department Store in San Francisco, which reads: "The Oriental Antique Vendor" by Charles Bargue. Less than 20 paintings known by this most exquisite highly finished artist who died so young. This is a must! For windows - [it] ties up nicely with Gumps general atmosphere. Put in window with similar art objects, jades, etc. This may be a note from a dealer (Weitzner) trying to sell the painting to Gump's, or it may have been written by a Gump member of staff as a memo to another employee on how to use the painting in a window display. The store's archives were destroyed in a fire in 1974, and there is no evidence that Gumps ever owned the painting. Both stylistically and conceptually, Bargue had much in common with Jean-Léon Gérôme, with whom he shared a studio in the 1870s. His contemporaries also compared him to Eugène Delacroix and Eugène Fromentin. Bargue's extremely rare works became known for their high and exquisite finish. In the less than forty paintings which he executed during his lifetime, Bargue developed a rich, sonorous colour scheme of deep, merging tones. In an unpublished letter of 1987 Ackerman discussed Bargue's individuality as follows: 'it is not just his skill in painting fine detail that makes him so wonderful, it is his control of his hues. His details are always painted in subtle agreement with the light or shadow that discloses or surrounds them. Bargue's mastery of light and dark enables him to place every object exactly in space, so that it is seen precisely in terms of its relationship to the light source and to every other article.' Bargue's paintings were very popular with wealthy collectors in the United States during his lifetime, and his works have subsequently found their way into the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, the Malden (Massachusetts) Public Library and the Payne Art Centre in Oshkosh, Wisconsin.
Sotheby's
Oct. 27, 2004
Charles Bargue (French, 1826-1883)
Est: $70,000 - $90,000
Study for 'A Bashi-Bazouk' signed and dated 'BARGUE. 75' (lower right) oil on canvas 18 x 12 in. (45.7 x 30.5 cm.) Painted in 1875
Christie's
May. 16, 2003
Charles Bargue (French, 1825-1883) of Two Sketches Including: Artist Sketching Each stamped "Vente
Est: $300 - $500
Bargue 1883", one with a label from the University of Michigan Various media including watercolor and graphite on paper, sight sizes to 4 3/4 x 6 1/4 in. (12 x 15.7 cm), framed. Condition: Subtle toning, not examined out of frame.
Skinner
Jul. 05, 2001
Charles Bargue (French, 1826-1883)
Est: $1,692 - $2,538
Study for L'Aim‚e inscribed signed and dated 'vente 1883 Bargue' (lower right) watercolour on paper 93/4 x 61/2 in. (24.7 x 16.5 cm.) NOTES This is one of at least three studies. The original oil was sold with a preparatory sketch at Christie's, New York November 1995. SALESROOM NOTICE Please note the title for this lot should read Study L'Aimee, inscribed signed and dated 'vente 1883 Bargue'. This is one of at least three studies. The original oil was sold with a preparatory sketch at Christie's, New York, November 1995.
Christie's