Guarisco Gallery 2012

Henri Le Sidaner enri Le Sidaner pursued his unique personal vision throughout a long and prolific career. Though strongly influenced by the Impressionist movement, Le Sidaner’s oeuvre defies strict classification of style. His constant and overriding ambition was to capture on canvas the effects of light, an interest shared by the Impressionist painters. However, his landscapes and still-lifes all have a dreamy, other-worldly quality that indicate the hand of a true individualist. [ Museums: Musée d’Orsay, Paris; Mus. of Modern Art, Rome; Musée d’Art Moderne, Paris; Phillips Collection, Wash., D.C.; Carnegie Inst., Pittsburgh; Fine Art Mus. of San Francisco; Tate Collection, London; Art Inst. of Chicago] Henri Le Sidaner ( French, 1862-1939) La Nappe Bleue (The Blue Tablecloth) signed, o/c 32” x 25-3/4” 35” x 39” fr. Literature: Le Sidaner, l’Oeuvre peint et gravé (Paris, 1989), p. 210 (illus) cover La Nappe Bleue (The Blue Tablecloth) is a beautiful example of Le Sidaner’s interest in Divisionism. Also termed Pointilism, Divisionism was a style of painting developed by Georges Seurat. Le Sidaner’s abbreviated dashes of contrasting color placed side by side reflect the Divisionist interest in the scientific theory of colors and the new discovery that when perceiving two pure colors juxtaposed against each other, the eye will blend them into a fuller range of tones. H