Alfred SMITH (1854-1932) - Lot 125

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Alfred SMITH (1854-1932) - Lot 125
Alfred SMITH (1854-1932) Cours des Fossés Bordeaux, 1885. Oil on panel, signed lower right, located Bx and dated 83 Pradelles. 32 x 41 cm. Exhibition: 33rd exhibition of the Salon des Amis des Arts (N° 435) Provenance : Bought by the grandfather of the present owner in Paris around 1890. Painter from Bordeaux of English origin, Alfred Smith was in his time, a renowned painter. As reported in the newspaper "La vie Bordelaise", each personal exhibition at the Imberti brothers' house at the end of the 19th century, moved the whole of Bordeaux in a worldly, elegant and artistic way. A student of Chabry and Pradrelles, landscape painters from Bordeaux, he left to settle in Paris in 1901. Member of the Salon des Artistes Français, he participated in the creation of the National Society of Fine Arts with his painter friend Alfred Roll. This twilight vision of a boulevard animated by pedestrians and carriages is part of a series of paintings of urban views dear to impressionists such as Camille Pissarro or Gustave Caillebotte. In the centre of our painting, the Lycée Montaigne appears in the half-light, with its characteristic lantern at the top of the building, which was destroyed at the beginning of the 20th century, when the Lycée was renovated. Built on the former ditches of the 13th century ramparts, the Cours des Fossés was renamed Cours Victor Hugo in homage to the writer who stayed in Bordeaux on several occasions. Following an East-West axis, this wide tree-lined courtyard has always been a lively thoroughfare in the historic centre of Bordeaux.
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