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Louis Iselin Boats on the Shore at Sunset, 1938
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Details
Signed and dated ‘L. Iselin 1938’ (lower left).
Sizes:
Frame: 61 × 111 cm | 24 × 43.7 in
Artwork: 50 × 100 cm | 19.7 × 39.4 in
A wide, panoramic shore at the end of the day: three boats drawn up on the dark red beach, a breakwater of white buildings running out into the bay, a line of blue hills under a sky that turns from violet to yellow and green where the sun has just gone. The water is laid in with short, broken strokes of turquoise, lilac and lemon that catch the last light, in the divisionist manner that French and Mediterranean painters kept alive well into the 1930s.
The format, twice as wide as it is high, and the low horizon make this a painting about sky and water rather than incident; the boats are the only solid things in it. It is dated 1938 and painted on a wooden panel, framed in a carved and gilded frame of the period.
Provenance
Acquired in France.
Private Collection, Spain.
Condition Report
Oil on wood panel. The paint layer is stable; light surface dirt and a few small scuffs along the lower edge; some rubbing to the gilding of the carved frame. Please contact us to request a detailed Condition Report.
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Packed as size — · 111 × 61 cm framed
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What it costs
Bidding on this site, the buyer’s premium is 25%, Spanish IVA included. There is no VAT on the hammer price and no card fee.
| Starting price | Low estimate | High estimate | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hammer price | €200 | €300 | €500 |
| Buyer’s premium 25% (IVA included) | €50 | €75 | €125 |
| Total on auroraathena.com | €250 | €375 | €625 |
| Total through a bidding platform (30%) | €260 | €390 | €650 |
Through LiveAuctioneers, Invaluable, Drouot or Bidspirit the premium is 30%: the same hammer of €500 costs €650 there against €625 here. Shipping and insurance are quoted separately; the estimator below gives the figure for your country. Buyers outside the EU pay no Spanish tax on the lot; the destination’s import rules apply (United States: original paintings and drawings enter duty-free; United Kingdom: 5% import VAT on art). Card payments are accepted up to €10,000; larger amounts by bank transfer.
Questions about this lot
How does the estimate compare with the artist’s recent auction results?
The estimate of €300–€500 is our opinion of the range this work should reach; the starting price of €200 is the lowest bid we accept. We have not published comparable results for this lot; ask us before the sale and we will send the results we based the estimate on.
What will this lot cost in total?
Bidding on this site, the buyer’s premium is 25%, Spanish IVA included, and there is no VAT on the hammer price and no card fee: at the starting price of €200 the total is €250; at the low estimate of €300 the total is €375; at the high estimate of €500 the total is €625.
Through LiveAuctioneers, Invaluable, Drouot or Bidspirit the premium is 30%, so the same hammer of €500 costs €650 there. Shipping and insurance are quoted separately; the estimator on this page gives the figure for your country. Buyers outside the EU pay no Spanish tax on the lot; the destination’s import rules apply (United States: original paintings and drawings enter duty-free; United Kingdom: 5% import VAT on art). Card payments are accepted up to €10,000; larger amounts by bank transfer.
How is this lot catalogued?
Under the artist’s name without qualification. Provenance, dating, condition and value are described to the best of our knowledge; the sale is governed by the Conditions of Sale.
Can I see the condition report, more photographs or the work itself?
A condition report with ultraviolet photographs is prepared on request, normally within two working days; the condition summary on this page is examined in-house and is not a conservator’s report. Further photographs of any detail, the reverse or the frame are sent on request. The work can be examined in our Barcelona showroom by appointment before the sale, and you are welcome to send your own conservator or specialist.
How does bidding work, and can a maximum bid make me overpay?
You can leave a maximum bid before the sale (the sale is on Saturday, November 28th - 17:00 (CET)) or bid live in our online room. A maximum bid is executed by the auctioneer only as much as is needed to stay ahead of other bidders, in the sale’s increments, never above your maximum.
Where a reserve exists it never exceeds the low estimate; a lot without a reserve sells to the highest bid at or above the starting price of €200.
Is there a limit on how much I can bid?
Every account is approved for bidding as soon as the e-mail address is confirmed, with a limit of €5,000 per bid until the identity is verified. The limit applies everywhere: in the live room, on the lot page and to maximum bids. To bid without a limit, verify your identity in your account on this site: it takes about three minutes on a phone, is done once, and the limit is lifted automatically as soon as the check is complete. Please do it at least an hour before the sale.
Louis Iselin
Louis Iselin is known from a small number of signed and dated paintings of the 1930s, coastal and harbour views in a late divisionist manner, with the light of the sky and the water broken into short strokes of pure colour. He signed his work ‘L. Iselin’.
No biography of the painter has yet been established: the standard dictionaries and the French national library catalogue have no entry under his name, and his dates and places of birth and death remain to be found.
The Iselin family name is Alsatian and Swiss, and the subject of the painting offered here, a Mediterranean-looking shore with a breakwater of white buildings and hills behind, suggests a painter who travelled to the south or to North Africa, as many French painters of his generation did.
We would welcome any documentation on the artist from collectors or descendants.
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