Henry SOMM (1844-1907)

Lot n° 67

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Estimation :

500 - 600 EUR

Result with fees

Result : 1 170EUR

Henry SOMM (1844-1907) - Lot 67

Henry SOMM (1844-1907) Young woman with fan and rabbits Watercolor signed lower right. 20 x 15 cm on view

Sale information - UNE COLLECTION INEDITE - First Sale

18th and 19th century paintings and drawings from the estate of a collector.

Works by Gérôme, Sérusier, Mucha, Lacoste, de Feure, Devambez, Abbema, Osbert, Desvallières, Stevens, Desgoffes, Frechon, etc.

EXHIBITIONS :

Wednesday May 29 -11am to 6pm

Thursday May 30th - 11am to 8pm

Friday May 31st - 11am to 12pm

SALE :

Friday May 31st - 2pm

CONTACT :

Romain Nouel

r.n@daguerre.fr

The story of this collection is unknown to us. For us, it begins with a chance discovery, during a routine estate inventory meeting; that of a man we know nothing about, except that he was at one time an antiquarian.

of a man about whom we know nothing except that he was, at one time in his life, an antiques dealer.

In the Porte Dauphine district, this opaque, cluttered apartment gradually revealed its contents, revealing to us what we're all looking for:

abundance and taste. Here, almost 800 paintings and some 20,000 sheets of paper (drawings, prints, photos) accumulated, sometimes anarchically.

We know almost nothing about this unmapped collection, this collector unknown to the leading experts. In the light of this accumulation, we can see

the character of a solitary man, an art history buff, a tireless defender of the Artist, whether painter, draughtsman, sculptor or photographer. We'd like to

to understand, to know more, to interpret what drove this man to accumulate so many paintings and drawings, often without exhibiting them. We can only make

can only speculate.

The dispersal of this collection over nearly seven sales reflects this quest and mystery. They give us a shadowy glimpse of the man who was

passionate about art and discovery. It also reveals that this aggregation, the quest of a lifetime, was not in vain: the entirety of his collection, now revealed, will be sold for the benefit of the Institut Pas-

the Pasteur Institute.

Jean-Léon Gérôme (Vesoul, 1824 - Paris, 1904)

The shipwreck

Canvas

70.4 x 106.3 cm

Exhibition: Cercle de l'Union artistique, 5 rue Boissy d'Anglas, no. 44 (owned by the artist)

Bibliography: Arsène Alexandre, article in Le Figaro, section, la vie artistique, Monday, February 4, 1901: "On peut assimiler à un paysage la marine avec

assimilate to a landscape the marine with a shipwrecked boat exhibited by M. Gérôme. There is some analogy,

for the subject, but a difference among other things for the setting on canvas with Delacroix's moving masterpiece in the Louvre.

Delacroix in the Louvre."

Estimate: €80,000/120,000