Ref: 896
Surging Sea
Eugène Chigot
Ref: 896
Surging Sea
Eugène Chigot
Oil on canvas
44 x 64 cm (17³/₈ x 25¹/₄ inches)
Signed and dated lower left: Eugène Chigot
44 x 64 cm (17³/₈ x 25¹/₄ inches)
Signed and dated lower left: Eugène Chigot
Provenance: Formerly part of the Manon Art Gallery collection, Timisoara/Banat
Formerly part of the Kurt Sillack collection, Dresden/GDR
Private collection in Hesse, ibid.
Formerly part of the Kurt Sillack collection, Dresden/GDR
Private collection in Hesse, ibid.
Literature: Thieme-Becker, Volume VI, p. 497, Antoine Descheemaeker-Colle, Eugène Chigot, June 2008, pp. 221–229 and Fig. 328
Rep. 438/439
Rep. 438/439
Description: Oil on canvas
signed and dated lower left.
Old shipping label on the reverse: 13066 FRANZKOWIAK & CO BERLIN and old title.
signed and dated lower left.
Old shipping label on the reverse: 13066 FRANZKOWIAK & CO BERLIN and old title.
Eugène Chigot
Eugène Chigot (1860–1923) was a French painter of northern light, closely linked to the Étaples artists’ colony and the Opal Coast. Trained first by his father, the painter Alphonse Chigot, and later at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris, he absorbed both realist and impressionist ideas while keeping a strong regional identity. His beaches, ports, dunes and rural scenes are built from loose, atmospheric brushwork, fresh colour and a sensitive study of weather, tides and changing skies.
Alongside Henri Le Sidaner, he helped develop the artistic life of Étaples and later became a founder of the Salon d’Automne. Chigot’s work often balances everyday coastal labour with poetic luminosity. Fishing boats, shorelines, village streets and wide horizons appear alive with wind, reflection and season. His landscapes preserve the modern, open-air spirit of French painting while remaining deeply rooted in place, observation and the mutable drama of the northern sea coast itself.
Alongside Henri Le Sidaner, he helped develop the artistic life of Étaples and later became a founder of the Salon d’Automne. Chigot’s work often balances everyday coastal labour with poetic luminosity. Fishing boats, shorelines, village streets and wide horizons appear alive with wind, reflection and season. His landscapes preserve the modern, open-air spirit of French painting while remaining deeply rooted in place, observation and the mutable drama of the northern sea coast itself.
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