Another Great Estate Find! Marcel Gromaire Manhattan View Oil on Canvas.

Marcel Gromaire Listed Artist Original Oil New York City ca.1950.

The exact provenance and exhibition history of this painting are unknown. The subject, however, dates it to 1950 or 1951. In 1950, the artist visited the United States for the first time. New York inspired a series of 20 oil paintings and watercolors that were exhibited the following year at the Galerie Louis Carré in Paris. His depictions of the frenetic postwar American city were a thematic departure for Gromaire, who tended to favor industrial and working class themes. Stylistically, though, the works are in keeping with his Cubist-Expressionist technique.

The catalogue raisonné of Gromaire’s work has accounted for 11 of the 20 works that were included in the 1951 exhibition. Of that number, seven are in private collections, two are in museums in France, and one (New York, Times Square la Nuit) sold at auction in 2008 for €16,250. The location of the eleventh is unknown.

This is the opportunity to acquire what could possibly be one of the nine unaccounted for works or prep works from that historic exhibition. Find it for sale online now at our eBay store.

Cit.: François Gromaire and Françoise Chibret-Plaussu. Marcel Gromaire: la Vie et l’Œuvre: Catalogue Raisonné des Peintures, 1993.