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Lot 18: Paul Emile Chabas (1869-1937) La plaine de Mazerolles, sur l’Erdre, près de Nantes. Avant 1894.

Est: €300 EUR - €500 EURSold:
Coutau-BegarieParis, FranceOctober 09, 2020

Item Overview

Description

18. Paul Emile Chabas (1869-1937)
La plaine de Mazerolles, sur l’Erdre, près de Nantes.
Avant 1894.
Huile sur toile
14,5 x 31,3 cm.
Situé et monogrammé, en bas à droite : Jaille PC

Provenance :
• Offert par l’artiste à la famille Lelièvre de la Touche,
• Puis par descendance

Natif de Nantes, où sa respectable famille est implantée dans le commerce depuis la fin du XVIIIe siècle, Paul Chabas étudie à l’Académie Julian, à Paris, sous le magistère de Bouguereau et de Robert-Fleury. Présent régulièrement au Salon, et ce dès 1885, il y présente d’honorables portraits bourgeois mais se distingue surtout par ses compositions oniriques, où des jeunes femmes en tenue de bain (ou d’Eve) badinent lors de délicats jeux aquatiques, nimbées de lumières aurorale ou crépusculaire (fig.1).
Œuvre caractéristique de sa production : « Joyeux ébats » (Musée d’Art de Nantes, inv.824) lui fait obtenir le prix national du Salon de 1899 (fig.2).
Aussi appelée « Les Baigneuses », l’œuvre fut réalisée dans un atelier aménagé dans le parc du manoir de la Guillonière, sur les bords de l’Erdre, mis à disposition par son ami nantais Lelièvre de la Touche, propriétaire d’un vaste domaine comprenant aussi le manoir voisin du Jaille. Le lieu devait recueillir toutes les faveurs de l’artiste puisque l’on sait qu’en 1894, fit l’acquisition du manoir de la Chataigneraie, distant de quelques kilomètres.

Notre petit paysage (le seul autonome que l’on connaisse), exécuté par de rapides touches épaisses, grâce auxquelles on perçoit des accents rosés dans ce ciel gris-bleu de soir d’automne, fut offert à la famille Lelièvre de la Touche, lors d’un des séjours amicaux de Chabas à Jaille. On y perçoit, en condensé, sous son vernis sale, toute son écriture des effets lumineux atmosphériques, des reflets sur l’eau, des brumes, que l’on retrouve dans son tableau le plus célèbre, à l’histoire originale.

Exposé au Salon de 1912, « Matinée de Septembre » (New York, The Metropolitan Museum, inv. 57.89), sitôt l’événement terminé, est expédié auprès d’un marchand à Chicago, où, choqué devant la nudité et la jeunesse du modèle, le maire de la ville intente un procès au galeriste, pour indécence. La justice tranche en faveur du galeriste et l’affaire rend l’œuvre célèbre. Toutefois, le marchand s’en sépare et l’envoie chez un confrère à New-York, où son exposition en vitrine provoque la colère d’Anthony Comstock, influent président de la Society for the Suppression of Vice. Le débat devient national, entrainant une reproduction sur tous supports de l’œuvre, achevant sa publicité. Elle sera acquise par un collectionneur russe, puis par Callouste Gulbenkian, puis, enfin, un amateur de Philadelphie qui en fit un don anonyme au Metropolitan.

Illustrations comparatives :

Fig.1. Paul Emile Chabas. Jeune fille, Collection privée, anciennement Galerie Pentcheff, Marseille.
Fig.2. Paul Emile Chabas. Joyeux ébats, 1899, Musée d’Art de Nantes, inv.824

Fig.3. Paul Emile Chabas. Matinée de Septembre, 1911, New York, The Metropolitan Museum, inv. 57.89.

Estimation : 300 – 500 euros

Artist or Maker

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Auction Details

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All property must be removed from either our premises by the purchaser at his expense as soon as possible after the sale otherwise an handling charge, until its removal, will be payable to the Auction House by the purchaser.

In the event a successful bidder fails to pay any amounts due, within one month, the Auction House reserves the right to cancel the sale and re-sell the lot according to the « Folle Enchère » French law (Law of July 10th 2000). The purchaser will be charged for all the expenses caused by the re-auctioning of the property. If the new auction price does not reach the former one, the failing purchaser have to pay the difference.
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Every item becomes the entire responsibility of the new owner for any damages as soon as the auctioneer announces that an item has been sold.
Once payment is received you will be issued an invoice and a collection sheet. Items can be collected after payment has been made. Buyers cannot take possession of or remove their purchases from the auction until the total purchase price, including applicable taxes or fees, has been paid in full.
All property must be removed from either our premises by the purchaser at his expense as soon as possible after the sale otherwise an handling charge, until its removal, will be payable to the Auction House by the purchaser.

In the event a successful bidder fails to pay any amounts due, within one month, the Auction House reserves the right to cancel the sale and re-sell the lot according to the « Folle Enchère » French law (Law of July 10th 2000). The purchaser will be charged for all the expenses caused by the re-auctioning of the property. If the new auction price does not reach the former one, the failing purchaser have to pay the difference.
In any case, the purchaser will be liable for any deficiency, any and all costs, handling charges, late charges, expenses, legal fees, expenses and incidental damages.



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A buyer's premium will be added to the successful bid price and is payable by the purchaser based on a percentage of the hammer price. It is important to remember that there is 28,80% TTC (buyers premium 24% + TVA 20%) on top of the hammer price.

For any purchase via the Invaluable Live platform, additional costs of 3,00% excl. VAT
will be applied

Payment:

A buyer's premium will be added to the successful bid price and is payable by the purchaser based on a percentage of the hammer price. It is important to remember that there is 28,80% TTC (buyers premium 24% + TVA 20%) on top of the hammer price.

Subject to any reserve price, the highest bidder shall be the buyer and a dispute shall be settled by the auctioneer who may at any time at his absolute discretion and regardless of the fall of the hammer re-open the bidding or withdraw the lot from sale.
Payment is in euro and is expected almost immediately after bidding for an item. We accept cash, pre-approved cheque or credit card. Bank commissions and expenses have to be paid by the buyer.

In the event a successful bidder fails to pay any amounts due, within one month, the Auction House reserves the right to cancel the sale and re-sell the lot according to the « Folle Enchère » French law (Law of July 10th 2000). The purchaser will be charged for all the expenses caused by the re-auctioning of the property. If the new auction price does not reach the former one, the failing purchaser have to pay the difference.
In any case, the purchaser will be liable for any deficiency, any and all costs, handling charges, late charges, expenses, legal fees, expenses and incidental damages.

Condition:

Coutau-Bégarie Auction House guarantees the authenticity of attribution of property listed in the catalogue which can be modified by saleroom notices or oral indications given at the time of the sale, recorded in the official sale record.
The correctness of the catalogue or other description of the physical condition, size, quality, rarity, importance, medium, provenance, exhibitions or historical relevance of any property is a statement of opinion only.
Any illustrations in the catalogue are solely for the guidance of prospective buyers and are not to be relied upon in terms of colour or necessarily to reveal imperfections in any lot.

Many lots are of an age or nature which precludes their being in mint condition and some descriptions in the catalogue make reference to damage or restoration. Such information is given for guidance only and the absence of such a reference does not imply that a lot is free from defects not either does any reference to particular defects imply the absence of others.