JOHN LESLIE BRECK (american 1860–1899) "FOG AND SUN IN GIVERNY" Signed and dated 'BRECK 89' bottom left; also with French preparer's stencil verso, oil on canvas 18 1/4 x 22 in. (46.4 x 55.9cm) provenance: Collection of George Whitfield Chadwick and Ida Mae Brooks Chadwick, Boston. By descent in the family. Skinner, Marlborough, sale of November 10, 2000, lot 195. Acquired directly from the above sale. Private Collection, Washington D.C. EXHIBITED: "Paintings by John Leslie Breck," Saint Botolph Club, Boston, Massachusetts, 1890, no. 5. NOTE: A short lived Massachusetts-based painter, John Leslie Breck was among the first American artists of the 1880s to work and settle in the French village of Giverny, home to Impressionist master Claude Monet Alongside other artists including Willard LeRoy Metcalf Theodore Wendel Blair Bruce and Theodore Robinson Breck founded a small colony in this tiny village of Normandy about fifty miles northwest of Paris, and eventually developed close ties to Claude Monet experimenting with the artist's aesthetic principals. On his return to his native Boston in 1890, Breck exhibited paintings, including the present work, at the Botolph Club in 1890, thus helping to introduce Impressionism to an American audience. Painted just one year prior to his return to Boston, Fog and Sun in Giverny is characterized by Claude Monet's inspired loose, dappled brushwork and atmospheric effects. Here, the artist introduces us to a foggy landscape in the early hours of the morning. It combines the artist's delicate impressionist touch with a bold composition. The viewer is looking at the roofs of several cottages from a low vantage point, located at the bottom of a hill. The subtle contrasts between the pastel hues of the painting, and the radiating milky sky in the background demonstrate the artist's interest, in recording the transient effects of light, at which he excelled.
JOHN LESLIE BRECK (american 1860–1899) "FOG AND SUN IN GIVERNY" Signed and dated 'BRECK 89' bottom left; also with French preparer's stencil verso, oil on canvas 18 1/4 x 22 in. (46.4 x 55.9cm) provenance: Collection of George Whitfield Chadwick and Ida Mae Brooks Chadwick, Boston. By descent in the family. Skinner, Marlborough, sale of November 10, 2000, lot 195. Acquired directly from the above sale. Private Collection, Washington D.C. EXHIBITED: "Paintings by John Leslie Breck," Saint Botolph Club, Boston, Massachusetts, 1890, no. 5. NOTE: A short lived Massachusetts-based painter, John Leslie Breck was among the first American artists of the 1880s to work and settle in the French village of Giverny, home to Impressionist master Claude Monet Alongside other artists including Willard LeRoy Metcalf Theodore Wendel Blair Bruce and Theodore Robinson Breck founded a small colony in this tiny village of Normandy about fifty miles northwest of Paris, and eventually developed close ties to Claude Monet experimenting with the artist's aesthetic principals. On his return to his native Boston in 1890, Breck exhibited paintings, including the present work, at the Botolph Club in 1890, thus helping to introduce Impressionism to an American audience. Painted just one year prior to his return to Boston, Fog and Sun in Giverny is characterized by Claude Monet's inspired loose, dappled brushwork and atmospheric effects. Here, the artist introduces us to a foggy landscape in the early hours of the morning. It combines the artist's delicate impressionist touch with a bold composition. The viewer is looking at the roofs of several cottages from a low vantage point, located at the bottom of a hill. The subtle contrasts between the pastel hues of the painting, and the radiating milky sky in the background demonstrate the artist's interest, in recording the transient effects of light, at which he excelled.
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