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The Complete Works of Philippe Smit
by Andreas Narzt and Florence Castellani

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Photo: Studio Sebert; © FdDPS
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Original frame designed and painted by the artist.
Original frame designed and painted by the artist.
Photo: Studio Sebert; © FdDPS
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Classification: Pastel
Theme: landscape
Medium: Pastel
Support: On cardboard
Year: 1933
PS 419
View onto the Sea with Mimosas, La Croix-Valmer
Alternate title: La Croix-Valmer
1933
Pastel on cardboard
34 11/16 x 50 3/16 in. (88 x 127.5 cm) (sight size)
Signed and dated lower left: Philippe Smit/1933
On the back: a metal plate: Lottie Urban on the frame lower left.
Collection Gabrielle Guillemin-Metcalfe, UK
Inventories
Inv. Lotty Urban-Leteneur, n.d. [ante 1953], s.n., private archives: no. [23]: p. [1], Pastels: Vue sur la mer avec mimosas, près de Lacroix [sic].
Exhibitions
No known exhibitions.
Literature & Primary Sources
Massé 1920–1935
Massé, René. Journal. 1920-21, 1924, 1929-31, 1933-1935, 02-04-1933, p. [21 & 22] ("… b) La Méditerranée …").
Notes

"Gare de Lyon pour Montereau (8h.41 – 10h.24)/ Philippe vient me chercher à la gare. […] Arrivée au Château. […] L’atelier (les tubes de couleurs)/ les nouvelles œuvres faites dans le Var [et à Fontainebleau]./ [...] b) La Méditerranée – effet du soir – à droite la symphonie/ jaune des mimosas – la calandre [calanque] – les pins – la montagne/ loingtain [sic] – richesse – terre classique. […]" (Gare de Lyon to Montereau (8:41 – 10:24). Philippe comes to meet me at the train station. … Arrival at the Chateau. … The studio (the tubes of colours) the new works done in the Var [and in Fontainebleau]….b) The Mediterranean – evening atmosphere – to the right, the yellow symphony of mimosas – the rocky inlet (calanque) – the pine trees – the distant mountain – profusion – classical landscape. …) (Massé, 2 April 1933, p. [21 & 22])

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Citation: Narzt, Andreas and Castellani, Florence. "View onto the Sea with Mimosas, La Croix-Valmer, 1933 (PS 419)." In The Complete Works of Philippe Smit. www.philippesmit.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=419 (accessed on May 9, 2025).