Maximilien Luce
(1858-Paris-1941)
‘A colourful street scene with bustling people’
Oil on board: 14 x 54 cm
Signed (lower left): ‘Luce’
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Notes
Maximilien Luce was a prolific French Neo-impressionist artist, known for his paintings, illustrations, engravings, and graphic art, and also for his anarchist activism. Luce was among the most productive of the Neo-impressionists, creating over two thousand oil paintings, a comparably large number of watercolors, gouaches, pastels, and drawings, plus over a hundred prints.
The Musée d’Orsay assesses Luce as “one of the best representatives of the neo-impressionist movement”. Although he had had many solo exhibitions of his work in France, the first one in the United States did not occur until a 1997 retrospective at Wildenstein & Company in Manhattan.
Provenance
- Dr. Willy Raeber, Basel;
- sold to a private Dutch collection, ca. 1965;
- thence by descent to the present owner
Expertise
The authenticity of this work has been confirmed by Mrs Denise Bazetoux in January 2020 and will be included in the forthcoming catalogue raissonné (Tome 4).