The Beach at Sainte-Adresse
- Date
- 1907
- Material
- Oil on canvas
- depicts
- Sainte-Adresse, Normandy, France, Europe
- Classification
- Paintings
- Collection
- Modern and Contemporary Art
- Current Location
- Not on view
- Dimensions
- 23 3/4 x 28 3/4 in. (60.3 x 73 cm)
framed: 33 15/16 x 39 1/8 x 4 1/2 in. (86.2 x 99.4 x 11.4 cm) - Credit Line
- Gift of Sarah Jane May Waldheim
- Rights
- © Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York, NY / ADAGP, Paris
- Object Number
- 83:1985
NOTES
In this painting, Raoul Dufy depicts a fine day at Sainte-Adresse, a resort town near his birth city, Le Havre, France. As a sailboat glides through bright blue waters, two women look on from a pier, shading themselves with parasols. A boy and an older man lean against a rail, holding out fishing rods whose curved shapes echo the contour of the shoreline. Such leisure outings were a frequent subject for the Impressionists, a group of avant-garde artists, whose paintings the younger Dufy had admired in Paris.
Provenance
1922 - 1925
Galerie Bernheim-Jeune, Paris, France, purchased from the artist [1]
1925 -
Max Pellequer, Paris, France, purchased from Galerie Bernheim-Jeune [2]
- 1958
Feigl Gallery (Hugo Feigl), New York, NY, USA
1958 -
Morton D. May (1914-1983), St. Louis, MO, purchased from Feigl Gallery [3]
- 1985
Sarah Jane May Waldheim, St. Louis, MO, by gift or inheritance from Morton D. May [4]
1985 -
Saint Louis Art Museum, given by Sarah Jane May Waldheim [5]
Notes:
[1] Bernheim-Jeune purchased the painting from the artist on February 4, 1922. It was listed under the stock number 22940. On January 21, 1925 the picture was sold to Pellequer, according to a Bernheim-Jeune photo negative no. 4252 [letter dated January 8, 2004 from Guy-Patrice Dauberville, Director, Galerie Bernheim-Jeune, SLAM document files].
[2] See note [1].
[3] Bill of sale from Feigl Gallery dated December 4, 1958 [May Archives, Saint Louis Art Museum].
[4] Sarah Jane May Waldheim was Morton D. May's sister. We do not know whether she received the picture as a gift or inheritance from her brother, who died in 1983. At the time of Mrs. Waldheim's gift of the painting to the Museum, she provided a copy of the invoice from Feigl Gallery to Morton D. May [letter from Mrs. Waldheim's attorney to the Museum dated July 19, 1985, SLAM document files].
[5] See note [4]. Minutes of the Acquisitions and Loans Committee of the Board of Trustees, Saint Louis Art Museum, September 12, 1985.
Galerie Bernheim-Jeune, Paris, France, purchased from the artist [1]
1925 -
Max Pellequer, Paris, France, purchased from Galerie Bernheim-Jeune [2]
- 1958
Feigl Gallery (Hugo Feigl), New York, NY, USA
1958 -
Morton D. May (1914-1983), St. Louis, MO, purchased from Feigl Gallery [3]
- 1985
Sarah Jane May Waldheim, St. Louis, MO, by gift or inheritance from Morton D. May [4]
1985 -
Saint Louis Art Museum, given by Sarah Jane May Waldheim [5]
Notes:
[1] Bernheim-Jeune purchased the painting from the artist on February 4, 1922. It was listed under the stock number 22940. On January 21, 1925 the picture was sold to Pellequer, according to a Bernheim-Jeune photo negative no. 4252 [letter dated January 8, 2004 from Guy-Patrice Dauberville, Director, Galerie Bernheim-Jeune, SLAM document files].
[2] See note [1].
[3] Bill of sale from Feigl Gallery dated December 4, 1958 [May Archives, Saint Louis Art Museum].
[4] Sarah Jane May Waldheim was Morton D. May's sister. We do not know whether she received the picture as a gift or inheritance from her brother, who died in 1983. At the time of Mrs. Waldheim's gift of the painting to the Museum, she provided a copy of the invoice from Feigl Gallery to Morton D. May [letter from Mrs. Waldheim's attorney to the Museum dated July 19, 1985, SLAM document files].
[5] See note [4]. Minutes of the Acquisitions and Loans Committee of the Board of Trustees, Saint Louis Art Museum, September 12, 1985.
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