Lot 11: HENRI LE DOUANIER ROUSSEAU (1844-1910) Esquisse pour Vue du pont de Sèvres

HENRI LE DOUANIER ROUSSEAU (1844-1910) Esquisse pour Vue du pont de Sèvres signed ‘H. J. Rousseau’ (lower right); signed, inscribed and dated ‘Vue de Sèvres 1908. appartenant à mon ami Brummer, Paris Le 13 Xbre 1908. Rousseau’ (verso) oil on paper 19.2 x 27.3cm (7 9/16 x 10 3/4in). Painted in 1908

Provenance J. Brummer Collection, Paris, a gift from the artist, 1908. D.-H. Kahnweiler Collection, Paris. Griffin Collection. Galerie Pierre, Paris, by 1933. Lawrence Venn Collection, London, by 1944. Galerie Bing, Paris, by 1951. The London Gallery Ltd., London. Cyril S. Reddihough Esq. Collection. Exhibited Basel, Kunsthalle, Henri Rousseau, 1 March - 2 April 1933, no. 50 (titled ‘Vue de Sèvres’). Paris, Salle Royale, Les Maîtres populaires de la réalité, 1937, no. 19 (later travelled to Zurich, London and New York, titled ‘Vue du pont de Sèvres’). Literature D. Cooper, ‘Henri Rousseau: artiste peintre’, in The Burlington Magazine, July 1944, no. C (illustrated pl. III, titled ‘Vue de Sèvres’). D. Cooper, Henri Rousseau, Paris, 1951 (illustrated). J. Bouret, Henri Rousseau, Neuchâtel, 1961, no. 198 (illustrated p. 232). D. Vallier, Henri Rousseau, Cologne, 1961, no. 115 (illustrated). D. Vallier, Tout l’oeuvre peint de Henri Rousseau, Paris, 1970, no. 215 B (illustrated p. 110). H. Certigny, Le Douanier Rousseau en son temps, Biographie et catalogue raisonné, Vol. II, Tokyo, 1984, no. 272 (illustrated p. 575). Henri Le Douanier Rousseau, Pont de Sèvres, 1908, S.I.Schtschukin Collection, Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow

This work is a study for the painting Pont de Sèvres; painted in 1908, currently in the Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow.