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Signed ‘Georges Stein’ and inscribed ‘Paris’ (lower right).
Sizes:
Frame: 52 × 62 cm | 20.5 × 24.4 in
Artwork: 30 × 40 cm | 11.8 × 15.7 in
Night has fallen on one of the grands boulevards. A Morris column glows with its posters, the shopfronts and café awnings are lit, and a gas lamp on its island throws a long reflection across the wet roadway. A flower-seller pushes her cart heaped with blooms, a woman in a red jacket and white hat hurries across the street, a horse-drawn omnibus with white horses comes down the centre, a hansom cab waits at the right and an early motor car threads through the crowd. The bare trees say winter; the whole sheet is built in grey and black washes with touches of white gouache for the lamps and the lit windows.
Georges Stein (1864–1917) made this Paris his life’s subject: the boulevards, the Opéra, the Champs-Élysées and the parks at the turn of the century, peopled with elegant women, cabs and omnibuses, in oil, watercolour and gouache. Night scenes with their lamps and reflections are the most sought-after part of his work. The present sheet is signed and inscribed ‘Paris’ at the lower right.
Two auction labels on the reverse, Cornette de Saint-Cyr and Digard, record the picture’s passage through the Paris rooms. Presented under glass in a carved and gilt frame with a linen mount.
P. Cornette de Saint-Cyr, Paris (label on the reverse); Digard Auction, Paris (label on the reverse); Private Collection, Spain.
Certificate of Authenticity: Included (Issued by Aurora & Athena).
Packed as size M (up to 80 × 60 cm) · 62 × 52 cm framed
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Georges Stein, the name under which Séverin Louis Stein painted, was born in Paris on 12 February 1864, the son of a bookbinder of Luxembourg origin. He trained under Jules Lefebvre and Gustave Boulanger and from the 1890s devoted himself to the city of his birth: the grands boulevards, the Opéra, the Champs-Élysées and the Bois de Boulogne, seen at the hour when the lamps come on and cabs, omnibuses and elegant women fill the street.
He worked in oil, watercolour, gouache and pastel, showed eight paintings at the Salon des Indépendants of 1906 and exhibited at the Salon des Artistes Français from 1912 to 1914. In 1910 he painted four large canvases for the casino of Vichy, and he also depicted London, Vichy, Melun and the Swiss cities of Bern, Lausanne and Geneva.
Stein belongs with Jean Béraud, Luigi Loir and Eugène Galien-Laloue among the painters who fixed the image of Belle Époque Paris, and his night scenes, with their gas lamps and wet reflections, are the most sought-after part of his work. He also illustrated books, among them Léo Claretie’s Les Grands boulevards of 1897.
Dealers’ catalogues often give his dates as 1870–1955. The Paris birth register and a Geneva death notice, cited by the Bibliothèque nationale de France, establish that he was born in 1864 and died in Geneva in December 1917.
Georges Stein (1864–1917), the gouache painter of Belle Époque Paris after dark: who he was, why the night boulevards are the pictures to buy, what his work sells for, and a signed winter evening on the grands boulevards in our gallery at 2,200 €.
Notre-Dame from the quays, snow on the Marne, a Montparnasse interior, the Allée des Cavaliers and a Foujita proof: five Paris pictures under 5,000 €.
Antoine Blanchard was the pseudonym of French painter Marcel Masson (1910-1988), celebrated for his nostalgic Belle Époque scenes of Paris streets, cafés, and boulevards.
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