Les Bords de Saône dans la brume

1893
Oil on cardboard
17,71 x 27,56 in
Monogrammed and dated lower right: « L P 93 »

Provenance
Artist’ studio.
Sale: Sotheby’s London, « Impressionist and Modern Paintings and Sculpture », December 3, 1971, lot 13.
Rau Foundation for the Third World, Zurich.
Sale: Kunsthaus Lempertz, Cologne, « The Rau Collection for UNICEF », May 25, 2013, lot 656.
Private collection.

Exhibitions
London, Royal Academy of Arts, « From Manet To Gauguin: Masterpieces From Swiss Private Collections », June 30 – October 8, 1995, exhibition catalogue, n°146, illustrated.
« Impressionist and Post-Impressionist Masterpieces from Swiss Private Collections »,

travelling exhibition, Tokyo, The Sezon Museum of Art, October 21, 1995 – January 21, 1996 ; Nagoya, Matsuzakaya Museum of Art, February
3 – March 12, 1996, exhibition catalogue, no 48, illustrated p.133.

« Pointillisme : Auf den Spuren von Georges Seurat / Pointillisme – sur les traces de Seurat », travelling exhibition, Cologne, Wallraf-Richartz- Museum, September 6 – November 30, 1997, exhibition catalogue, no 48, p.132 , illustrated p.133 ; Lausanne, Fondation de l’Hermitage, January 23 – May 31, 1998, exhibition catalogue, no 115, illustrated p.254.
« Georges Seurat et le néo-impressionnisme, 1885-1905 », travelling exhibition, Kochi, Museum of Art – Utsunomiya Museum of Art, June 2 – July 14, 2002 ; Kyoto, The National Museum of Modern Art, September 10 – October 20, 2002 ; Tokyo, Seiji Togo Memorial Yasuda Dasai, Museum of Art, October 26 – December 8, 2002, exhibition catalogue, no 100, illustrated p.209.
Villefranche-sur-Saône, Musée Paul Dini,
« Le postimpressionnisme et Rhône-Alpes (1886-1914) : la couleur dans la lumière
», October 11, 2015 – February 7, 2016, exhibition catalogue, figure no 8, illustrated p.47 and listed under the no 120, p.163.

Literature
Gilles Caillaud, Hélène Bailly-Marcilhac & Charles Bailly, Léon Pourtau: vie et oeuvre d’un pionnier du pointillisme: essai de catalogue raisonné, Skira Editions, Milan, 2014, no 20, illustrated p.96-97.