Le port à Saint-Briac

Details

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

Provenance

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.

Literature

J.-J. Luthi, Emile Bernard, Catalogue raisonné de l'oeuvre peint, Paris, 1982, p. 10, no. 50 (illustrated, p. 11).

Exhibited

Musée d'Angers, Les Nabis, 1962, no. 68.
Paris, Galerie La Cave, Lumière et Couleur, date unknown.

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Lot Essay

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.

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