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Lot 208 PROPERTY FROM A DISTINGUISHED EUROPEAN COLLECTION

Emile Bernard (1868-1941)

Le port à Saint-Briac

Closed7 May 2009

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Emile Bernard (1868-1941)
Le port à Saint-Briac
signed and dated 'Emile Bernard 1887' (lower right)
oil on board
7½ x 11 3/8 in. (19 x 28.9 cm.)
Painted in 1887

Ambroise Vollard, Paris.
Dr. Paressant, Nantes.
Galerie La Cave (Mme Grandclodon), Paris.
Schroeder and Leisewitz, Bremen.
Galerie Hopkins-Thomas, Paris.
Acquired from the above by the late owner.

Specialist note

In 1886, Bernard traveled to Saint-Briac and Pont-Aven on the Brittany coast. The following year he returned to Saint-Briac and spent two months at Madame Lemasson's inn. The present painting represents the view of the harbor from Bernard's room.