Ferdinand du Puigaudeau (French, 1864-1930). Clair de lune sur Kervaudu. Oil on canvas. 25-3/4 x 32 inches (65.4 x 81.3 ...

Description

Ferdinand du Puigaudeau (French, 1864-1930)
Clair de lune sur Kervaudu
Oil on canvas
25-3/4 x 32 inches (65.4 x 81.3 cm)
Stamped lower right: F. du. Puigaudeau

PROVENANCE:
Sale: Guerpillon-Bergeron, Quimper, France, June 14, 1998;
Sale: Guignard, Lorient, France, March 20, 1999;
Sotheby's, New York, February 21, 2002, lot 37;
Private collection, acquired from the above.

LITERATURE:
A. Laurentin, Ferdinand du Puigaudeau (1864-1930): Catalogue raisonné des peintures, vol. II, Paris, 2023, p. 109, no. II-101.

Kervaudu, a moody late-15th-century manor in le Croisic, Brittany, became the home of Post-Impressionist painter Ferdinand Loyen du Puigaudeau from 1907 until his death in 1930. Designated a National Historic Monument in 1921, it was built by one of the local Breton nobles, in whose family it remained until the French Revolution when it was seized by the State and eventually sold. For Puigaudeau, Kervaudu was an enduring symbol of rich Breton history, and it figured prominently in his colorful paintings which reveal powerful influences from his close artistic associates, the Nabis ("prophet" in Hebrew). He formed fast relationships with Gauguin, Degas, Rysselberghe, Ensor, and Bernard. Puigaudeau's use of intense flat plates of color, a dappled effect akin to pointillism, strong sinuous rhythms, and dramatic light effects in the sky combine to give his paintings of Kervaudu a Symbolist, otherworldly quality. Degas affectionately dubbed Puigaudeau "the Hermit of Kervaudu."


More information about Puigaudeau, Ferdinand du. See also: Puigaudeau, Ferdinand Loyen du, Puigaudeau, Fernand Loyen de, Puigaudeau, Fernand Loyen Du, Puygaudeau, Fernand, Fernand Puigaudeau Artist.



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