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Artist or Maker: Eugene Boudin (1824-1898)

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Description: Trouville, scène de plage
signed 'E. Boudin' (lower left) and inscribed and dated 'Trouville, 1887' (lower right)
oil on panel
7 1/2 x 12 3/4 in. (19 x 32.4 cm.)
Painted in 1887

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Provenance: Emile Laffon, Paris; sale, Sotheby's, London, 9 July 1936, lot 13.
Galerie Bellier, Paris (acquired at the above sale)
Mr. and Mrs. Edward G. Robinson, Beverly Hills.
M. Knoedler & Co., Inc., New York.
Private collection (acquired from the above, 25 February 1957).
Anon. sale, Christie's, New York, 9 May 2001, lot 3.
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner.

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Exhibited: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Thirty Masterpieces of Modern French Art from the Edward G. Robinson Collection, July-September 1949, no. 8.
New York, The Museum of Modern Art and Washington D.C., National Gallery of Art, Forty Paintings from the Edward G. Robinson Collection, March-June 1953, p. 4, no. 4.
Los Angeles County Museum of Art and San Francisco, California Palace of the Legion of Honor, The Gladys Lloyd Robinson and Edward G. Robinson Collection, September 1956-January 1957, no. 6 (illustrated).
New York, M. Knoedler & Co., Inc.; Ottawa, National Gallery of Canada; and Boston, Museum of Fine Arts, A Loan Exhibition of Paintings and Sculpture from the Niarchos Collection, December 1957-April 1958, p. 12, no. 4 (illustrated, p. 13; titled Beach Scene).
London, The Tate Gallery, The Niarchos Collection, May-June 1958, p. 3, no. 4 (illustrated, pl. 11).
Athens, National Picture Gallery, The Niarchos Art Collection, August-September 1958, no. 4.
Zurich, Kunsthaus, Sammlung S. Niarchos, January-March 1959, no. 11.

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Published: A. Millier, "Modern French Featured in Los Angeles", The Art Digest, vol. 23 (no. 19), 1 August 1949, p. 8.
H. McBride, "Professional Collecting", Art News, vol. 52 (no. 1), March 1953, p. 40.
R. Schmit, Eugène Boudin catalogue raisonné, Paris, 1973, vol. II, p. 347, no. 2218 (illustrated).