La Plage

1890
Oil on canvas
28.74 x 36.22 in
Signed lower left: « L.Pourtau »

Provenance
Sale: Guy Loudmer, Meurice Hotel, Paris, « Importants Tableaux Modernes » December 2nd, 1976.
Josefowitz collection.

Exhibitions
London, Royal Academy of Art, « Post-impressionism: Cross-currents in European Painting », November 17, 1979 – March 16, 1979, exhibition catalogue, no 160, illustrated p.116.
Boston, Museum of Fine Arts, « European Paintings from Private Collections of Friends of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston », June 17 – August 15, 1992.
Paris, Musée d’Orsay, « Néo-impressionisme de Seurat à Klee », March 14 – July 10, 2005, illustrated p.254.

Literature
Le Figaro Magazine, February 1980, illustrated p.6.
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 2, illustrated p.53.