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Lot Essay
Yann Farinaux-Le Sidaner will include this painting in his forthcoming supplement to the Le Sidaner catalogue raisonné.
Having been apointed as an officer of La Légion d'Honneur in January 1914, Le Sidaner set out in April for Venice where, at that year's Biennale, he was to be honoured with an entire room in which to show his recent works. Venice was a city and a subject to which Le Sidaner returned throughout his career, perhaps inspired by Monet's and Whistler's celebrated and atmospheric renderings of La Serenissima. Indeed, his last recorded work, found after his death in his studio at Versailles, was a painting of Venice executed from memory.
From the early years of the century, Le Sidaner was a frequent exhibitor at the Carnegie Institute in Pittsburgh. There he took part in the ambitious series of shows of contemporary art that had been envisioned by the Institute's benefactor, Andrew Carnegie, and the present work was included in the 1921 exhibition.
Having been apointed as an officer of La Légion d'Honneur in January 1914, Le Sidaner set out in April for Venice where, at that year's Biennale, he was to be honoured with an entire room in which to show his recent works. Venice was a city and a subject to which Le Sidaner returned throughout his career, perhaps inspired by Monet's and Whistler's celebrated and atmospheric renderings of La Serenissima. Indeed, his last recorded work, found after his death in his studio at Versailles, was a painting of Venice executed from memory.
From the early years of the century, Le Sidaner was a frequent exhibitor at the Carnegie Institute in Pittsburgh. There he took part in the ambitious series of shows of contemporary art that had been envisioned by the Institute's benefactor, Andrew Carnegie, and the present work was included in the 1921 exhibition.