Lot Details
Lot 1007
Jean-Louis Forain
French, 1852-1931
L'Effet de Brume en Gare, circa 1884
Inscribed Forain on the revrese
Oil on panel
17 5/8 x 21 3/4 inches (44.7 x 55.3 cm)
Provenance:
Gustave Pellet, Paris
Docteur Maurice Robin, Paris
Mr. and Mrs. Irving Moskovitz, New York
Exhibited:
Paris, Musee des Arts Decoratifs, Forain, 1913, no. 54 (belonging to M. Pellet)
New York, Hirschl & Adler, Forain, 1967, no. 12, illus.
New York, Roslyn Harbor, Nassau County Museum of Art, Poets and Painters, Jun. 7-Sep. 7, 1997
Literature:
Lillian Browse, Forain the Painter, 1852-1931, London, 1978, p. 102, no. 17, illus. 133
Lillian Browse notes that this is the only depiction of this theme that she knows of by Forain. Dr. Maurice Robin was a friend of the artist who wrote an article on him in Les Hommes du Jour n.d.
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