Dec 22, 2008

The Beautiful Countryside of Brittany: View of Kermarie (Le Beau Pays de Bretagne: Le Trieux à Kermarie)

The Beautiful Countryside of Brittany: View of Kermarie (Le Beau Pays de Bretagne: Le Trieux à Kermarie)

1912

Henri Rivière

(French, 1864–1951)

Color lithograph

Support: Beige (1) wove

Sheet: 41 x 56 cm (16 1/8 x 22 1/16 in.); Image: 22.9 x 35.4 cm (9 x 13 15/16 in.)

Gift of John Bonebrake 2003.375

Catalogue raisonné: Fields p. 79, plate 15

Edition: 500 plus 100 numbered and signed by the artist

Location

Description

In 1896, Rivière and his wife moved into their newly completed summer home in Brittany. He selected the location for the house on a high cliff overlooking the sea. Views from great heights, overlooking inlets populated by sailboats, recur throughout his oeuvre from that time onward. After the turn of the century, Rivière continued to make color lithographs celebrating the countryside of Brittany. View of Kermarie and The Port of Ploumanac’h (elsewhere in this gallery) are among of the artist’s final lithographic views of Brittany.

See also
Collection: 
PR - Lithograph
Department: 
Prints
Type of artwork: 
Print

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