ARTIST
Louis Hayet (French, 1864-1940)
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TITLE
Les Becs de gaz

MEDIUM
Watercolor on paper
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DIMENSIONS
7 1/4 x 4 5/8 in (18.3 x 11.8 cm.)
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KNOWN PROVENANCE
Dr. Jean Sutter, Paris (Lugt 3542); sale, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 15 May 2001, lot 123.
Ginette et Alain Lesieutre, Collection Privée Sale No. PF1744, Sotheby's, Paris, 29 June 2017, lot 24.
Impressionist & Modern Art Day and Works on Paper Sale No. 21612, Christie's, London, 3 March 2023, lot 560.
MD Museum, acquired at the above sale.

ACCESSION NUMBER
2023.2

LITERATURE
G. Dulon & C. Duvivier, Louis Hayet: Peintre et théoricien du Néo-impressionnisme, Pontoise, 1991, p. 46 (Les Becs de gaz; illustrated).

EXHIBITED
Pontoise, Musée Tavet, Louis Hayet, œuvres néo-impressionnistes de 1885 à 1895, April - August 1991 (illustrated pp. 46).

NOTES
The authenticity of this work has been confirmed by Cristophe Duvivier.
The back of the artwork (verso) contains the stamp (Lugt 3542) from Dr. Jean Sutter.

"These two drawings belong with a small group of Impressionistic watercolours that are datable to the early years of Hayet’s career, between 1883 and 1887. Both watercolours once belonged to the art historian Jean Sutter, who published several books on Neo-Impressionism. Sutter owned numerous paintings and drawings by Hayet, of whom he prepared a manuscript catalogue raisonné, which was never published. Both of these watercolours were included in the exhibition Louis Hayet, oeuvres néo-impressionnistes de 1885 à 1895, held at the Musée Tavet in Pontoise in 1991."—Christie's