Catalogue entry

enlarge

Photo: Roger / Studio Sebert; © FdDPS

Series

Keywords

Landscape:
- water »
- rock(s) »
Maritime landscape:
- ship »
- seaside »
- sea »
Sites, France:
- Brittany »

Explore catalogue entries

Classification: Pastel

Theme: landscape

Medium: Pastel

Support: On cardboard

Year: 1933

PS 406

Breton Bay

Alternate title: La Petite Bretagne

1933

Pastel on cardboard

19 11/16 x 23 5/8 in. (50 x 60 cm)

Neither signed, nor dated

On the back: a metal plate: Lottie Urban on the frame lower left.

Collection Florence Leteneur-Castellani, Paris

Inventories

Inv. Leteneur, n.d. [1977], n.p., s.n., private archives: no. [09]: p. [1], salon: Smit Philippe - 'Bord de mer en Bretagne'/ Pastel, 47 x 58 [cm].

Provenance

Lotty Urban-Leteneur

Florence Leteneur (by descent)

Exhibitions

2000 Noyers-sur-Serein

Musée municipal, Noyers-sur-Serein, Yonne, France, Le Mystère Philippe Smit 1886 - 1948, April 01–November 30, 2000, as La Petite Bretagne.

Literature & Primary Sources

Rivais 2000

Rivais, Jeanine. "Le mystère Philippe Smit (1886-1948)." Le cris d'os, n° 31 (2000), p. 166, as La Petite Bretagne.

Record last updated February 8, 2017. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.

Citation: Narzt, Andreas and Castellani, Florence. "Breton Bay, 1933 (PS 406)." In The Complete Works of Philippe Smit. www.philippesmit.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=406 (accessed on May 17, 2025).

Pursuant to the provisions of the Code of Intellectual Property concerning copyright, any document of any nature contained in this site will be the exclusive property of the Philippe Smit endowment fund. Its use or reproduction, even partial, without prior written authorisation of the Philippe Smit Fund is forbidden, save for the exceptions provided for at article 125-5 of the Code of Intellectual Property.