Jean Hugon : Port méditerranéen (Mediterranean Harbour), 1967 (Watercolour)

By HUGON Jean (1919–1990) 

Jean Hugon (1919–1990)  
Port méditerranéen (Mediterranean Harbour), 1967
Watercolour, with touches of bodycolour
Dedicated and signed by hand, lower right: “Pour Yves Guérin, amicalement”, signed “Hugon”

Dimensions:
Sheet 29.7 × 21 cm (11 ⅝ × 8 ¼ in.)

Condition: good condition, unframed

Provenance: Livre d’Or de Yves Guérin, compiled 1963–1992 (single-owner provenance).

Description: A luminous, atmospheric watercolour of a Mediterranean harbour — fishing boats and a tall-masted sailing boat moored in the foreground, and beyond, a quay with a neoclassical colonnaded building (a columned, pedimented front) and a baroque bell tower, amid warm ochre façades — handled in fresh, transparent washes with reserved whites. Jean Hugon was a French painter born in Marseille, who settled in Bordeaux from 1953; influenced by the impressionists and the Fauves, he painted ports, boats and fishing scenes in a colourful idiom. (The refined, transparent watercolour technique here differs from his better-known oils; the attribution is to be confirmed.) Signed and dedicated by hand.

Price : 100,00 € ( 113.00 USD )