Landscape by night by Henri Le Sidaner

Provenance: Goupil Gallery, London, William Marchant & Co, Dominion Gallery Montreal , Private Collection Montreal

Henri Le Sidaner's works are imbued with calm and serenity. What mattered was to transpose the atmosphere and the suggestion into his works instead of the faithful representation of the landscape. Besides on this subject, his friend and art critic, Camille Mauclair said 1928 this: "He was looking for some time, the expression translated by a special technique of the envelope of things, the suggestion of their feeling rather than their presentation itself and he was attracted by the twilight and moonlight effects, I remember accompanying him […] in the warm and blue nights when he noted the reflections and practised optically dissociating the colours of things "1

The fall of the day was for the painter, the moment of predilection for his works with the sights of Venice. Attracted by the last lights of the day and the lighting of the moon, Le Sidaner endeavoured to transpose the touches of dark and light colours by suggesting to the viewer the feeling emanating from his observations. The blue hour was named by Camille Mauclair: "the hour the Sidaner".2

1.tiré de l'article d'Olga Yurkina, Henri Le Sidaner dans l'intimité de Gerberoy, publié le 8 août 2016, https://www.letemps.ch/culture/henri-sidaner-lintimite-gerberoy.

2. tiré de l'article d'Olga Yurkina, Henri Le Sidaner dans l'intimité de Gerberoy, publié le 8 août 2016, https://www.letemps.ch/culture/henri-sidaner-lintimite-gerberoy.