Adolphe Valette 1876-1942

Manchester Ship Canal, 1908

Oil on canvas
14 x 15.75 ins (35.56 x 40.01 cms)
Signed A.Valette bottom right, dated 18 Mars 1908 bottom left

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Provenance

Madame Andrée Valette to her friend Mademoiselle Denavit who bought Valette's house in Blacé
( Cecilia Lyon, Adolphe Valette, published by Phillimore, 2006, pg78 )

French Private Collection

English Private Collection

Exhibition History

Montbrison, Musée d'Allard, Adolphe Valette, Parcours d'un Impressionniste Forézien, 10 Octobre 2010 - 27 Mars 2011

The Lowry, Salford, Adolphe Valette, A Pioneer of Impressionism in Manchester, 15 October 2011 -29 January 2012

Tate Britain, Lowry and the Painting of Modern Life, 25 June - 20 October 2013

Literature

Cecilia Lyon, Adolphe Valette, published by Phillimore, 2006, pg 86

T.J. Clark and Anne M. Wagner, Lowry and the Painting of Modern Life, published by Tate Publishing, 2013, pg 33

Cecilia Lyon, Adolphe Valette & L.S.Lowry, published by Prosebookpublishing, 2020, pg 112

General Notes

This Museum standard painting is the earliest dated Manchester painting by Valette.