The Seine at Saint-Mammès
Artist
Francis Picabia
(French, 1879 - 1953)
CultureFrench
Date1903
MediumOil on canvas
Dimensions21 1/4 × 25 5/8 in. (54 × 65.1 cm)
SignedThe painting is signed and dated in the lower left.
Credit LineGift of the Estate of Augustus C. Miller
Object number2022.29
On View
Chrysler Museum of Art, Gallery 217
Label TextFrancis Picabia French, 1879–1953 La Seine à Saint-Mammes, 1903 Oil on canvas Best known today as a surrealist, Francis Picabia was a committed impressionist early in his career. Like those artists, he worked outdoors, painting series of “impressions” of the same sites under different conditions of light and weather. This spot is on the Seine River, upstream from Paris, near the forest of Fontainebleau. Picabia focused, paradoxically, not on the forest but a stretch of river bank where the lumber from its trees was loaded on boats for use in Paris. Gift of the Estate of Augustus C. Miller 2022.29ProvenanceLenormand & Dayen, Paris, December 4, 1991, lot 83 to Ribeyre & Baron in Paris, March 14, 1994, lot 83 to Sotheby's New York, November 9, 1994 to Hirsch and Adler, New York City to Augustus Miller, Virginia Beach, VA to CMA
Préfecture de Police de Paris, Service de l'Identité Judiciaire
January 1910
Préfecture de Police de Paris, Service de l'Identité Judiciaire
July 1910
Walter Francis Brown
