Henri LEBASQUE (1865-1937). Portrait of Marthe au chapeau mauve, circa 1925. Oil on canvas signed lower left. Bears on the back two exhibition labels in Venice and Paris. Height 55 cm - Width : 46 cm Provenance : - Sale by public auction on December 12, 1983 at Maître Claude Robert in Paris, under n°230 ; - Sale by public auction on May 17, 1984 at Christie's in New-York, under n°363 ; - Sale by public auction on February 16, 1989 at Christie's, New-York, under n°100 ; - Sale by public auction on April 1, 1990, with Maître Guy Loudmer, Paris, under n°87 ; - Public auction June 25, 2002, Sotheby's, London, no. 316; - I.D.L. Gallery, Paris, purchased May 2006; - Private collection in Paris, then by descent. Bibliography: reproduced on p.187 in the artist's catalog raisonné by Denise Bazetoux, Henri Lebasque: catalog raisonné, Arteprint, 2008, Tome I. Note: Henri Lebasque, a major figure of French Post-Impressionism, is renowned for his luminous, shimmering painting, marked by the legacy of the Nabis and the Fauves. This late portrait of Marthe, his eldest daughter, illustrates the central place of the family in his work: Henri Lebasque tirelessly painted his wife and children. Here, using a vivid palette and diffused light, he portrays the bonds of complicity and tenderness that most probably united them. Marthe gave up her career as an opera singer to devote herself to painting, and was exhibited in major galleries such as the Galerie Bernheim-Jeune in Paris.