Louis André Mourgues (1886-1962) - The Harbour Mole, Saint-Tropez, c. 1930's

Louis André Mourgues (1886-1962) | French The Harbour Mole, Saint-Tropez, c. 1930's Oil on Panel Signed: Signed ‘L. Mourgues’ (lower left). Dimensions: Artwork: 32.5 × 40.5 cm | 12.8 × 15.9 in Provenance: Acquired in France. Private Collection, Spain. Condition: Oil on a prepared wooden panel with the Paris colourman’s stamp of Mme Merlin-Denis on the reverse. The heavy impasto is stable; a few tiny flakes of loss at the thickest ridges and some rubbing at the edges; unframed. Please contact us to request a detailed Condition Report. Shipping: Aurora & Athena coordinates professional, insured shipping for every purchase through vetted logistics partners: packing, transport, insurance and the export paperwork are arranged on the buyer's behalf and charged at the provider's cost. Buyers are equally welcome to collect in Barcelona or to appoint a carrier of their own. Lots are released once the total purchase price has been received. For shipments outside the EU an export licence may be required and Spanish export duties may apply to certain higher-value works; these are the buyer's responsibility. No export tax applies within the EU. Full shipping and export information is available on request. Conditions of Sale: All lots are sold as is, in the condition described. The condition summary is given as a courtesy; a full condition report is available on request before the sale. Attributions are governed by our Terms and Conditions. All enquiries must be made before bidding; no further information can be provided after the sale. By placing a bid you confirm that you have read and accept our Terms and Conditions in full, as set out in the terms of this sale. -- A curving stone mole leads the eye into the harbour of Saint-Tropez: red and purple nets are spread to dry along the quay, a fishing boat with an awning is moored to the right, and across the blue water the houses of the port stand in a row, ochre and cream with red roofs and shuttered windows. Above them rises the bell tower of the parish church, with the hill of the citadel behind, and at the far left the squat Tour du Portalet closes the quay. The sky is a pale mauve, and the whole picture is built up in thick, troweled paint, the white parapet of the mole standing in ridges a centimetre high. Louis André Mourgues (1886–1962), born at La Crau in the Var, settled at Sainte-Maxime, on the other shore of the Gulf of Saint-Tropez, where he began as a sign-painter and became the painter of the gulf, its harbours, its fishermen and its chapels; he received the Palmes académiques in 1929 and one of his paintings was chosen to decorate the liner France. Here he has crossed the water and set up his easel on the mole of Saint-Tropez, the view that Signac and Marquet had made famous a generation earlier.

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