LUCIEN SIMON
French, 1861-1945
The Piazzetta, Venice
Signed LSimon
Oil on panel
10½ x 14 inches (26.5 x 35.5 cm)
Framed: 17 x 20¼ inches (43 x 51.5 cm)
Painted in 1912, this work is a study for the artist's Venise, La Piazzetta (oil on canvas, 22 x 29 inches), which was sold at Rossini, Hôtel Drouot, Paris on December 6, 2001, lot 103.
This is one of several Venetian studies made by Lucien Simon during his stay in Venice between April and October of 1912. Simon and his friend Jacques-Emile Blanche, along with René Ménard and Gaston Latouche, had been invited to exhibit at the prestigious Venice Biennale in that year.
Provenance
The Artist
By descent to the artist's granddaughter
Exhibited
Paris, Jane Roberts Fine Arts, Lucien Simon et Jacques-Emile Blanche: Une Histoire d'Amitié, 2019, no. 20, illustrated
$12,000