*Listed CLAUDE EMILE SCHUFFENECKER 2 Portraits with COA Extremely rare portraits of Schuffeneckers Aunt + Uncle Start Price USD 41,500.00 Current Price USD 41,500.00 Time Left - Bid Count 0 Buy It Now Price - Reserve Price - Start Time Wednesday, May 07, 2008 End Time Saturday, May 17, 2008 Location Harwinton, CT See more about '*Listed CLAUDE EMILE SCHUFFENECKER 2 Portraits with COA' Description CLAUDE EMILE SCHUFFENECKER (b.1851-1934) TWO RARE CLAUDE EMILE SCHUFFENECKER PORTRAITS OF HIS ADOPTIVE PARENTS; AUNT AND UNCLE CORNU PAINTED IN 1882.  OIL ON CANVAS.  BOTH PORTRAITS ARE ORIGINAL AND EACH COMES WITH A COA (Certificate of Authenticity).  SOLD AS A PAIR ONLY.       Raised by his mother's sister, Anne Fauconnet Monnet, and her husband Pierre Cornu in Paris.  Schuffenecker's Aunt and Uncle willed him a decent inheritance in the early 1880's and with that money enabled him to paint full time.  It could be said that without the financial help of Mr. and Mrs. Cornu, Schuffenecker might never have achieved success as a painter. DETAILS FOR BOTH:CONDITION: GOOD - VERY GOOD UNFRAMED PROVENANCE: PRIVATE COLLECTION, LAS VEGAS 1. PAINTING SURFACE: OIL ON CANVAS2: SIGNATURE and DATED: YES 3. TOUCHUP: YES 4. ORIGINAL 5: SIZE FOR BOTH: 21 1/4    inches Wide                               25 12/16 inches High6: C.O.A FOR BOTHNotable Past Auctions of Oil on Canvas Paintings by Schuffenecker:Source: ARTVALUE.COM Title : Les Ramasseuses de Varechs    Date : 1889Oil on canvasSize Range : : : Cm : 82 x 66 cm Inch : 32 1/4 x 26 in Sale : Y.-M. Le Roux & C.Morel, S.V.V., Drouot Richelieu, Salle 4 Paris 19/11/2003 Estimate : 40 000 EUR - 50 000 EURSOLD: 310,341.00  USD___________________________ Title : Le square au Luxembourg    Date : ca 1886/1888 Oil on canvas Cm : 84,5 x 100 cmInch : 33 1/4 x 39 3/8 inEstimate : 80 000 USD - 120 000 USDSale : Sotheby's «N08127»* New York 03/11/2005SOLD: 240,000.00 USD__________________________ Title : Falaise d'Etretat    Date : 1888Oil on canvas Size Range : Cm : 55 x 66 cmInch : 21 5/8 x 26 in Estimate : 60 000 GBP - 80 000 GBP Sale : Christie's, «7355»*, Impressionnist and Modern Art London 07/02/2007 SOLD: 188,409.00  USD_________________________ Biography Artist: Claude-Emile Schuffenecker went to Paris at the age of fifteen to study with Paul Baudry, and in 1872 he joined the stock brokerage firm of Paul Bertin where Paul Gauguin was also employed. In the early 1880s, Schuffenecker inherited a small legacy, enabling him to quit his job and become an artist full-time.Following Schuffeneckeres participation in the eighth and final Impressionist Exhibition in 1886, he and Gauguin (with whom he had spent that winter and spring painting) decided to go to Brittany for the summer with Schuffenecker choosing the fishing village of Concarneau, and Gauguin deciding on the nearby village of Pont-Aven. It was during this period that Schuffenecker established his great friendship with Emile Bernard which would outlast his affections for Gauguin but which friendship would end in 1891. By then it was clear to Schuffenecker that they held fundamentally different aesthetic perspectives and Gauguin was annoyed with the bourgeois temperament of his friend who chose to invest money in income property rather than lending it to Gauguin. Schuffenecker then learned that Gauguin was having an affair with his wife, Louise. Schuffenecker, prior to choosing a more ephemeral approach to Impressionism as the style which best suited his contemplative interest in such eastern mysticism as Rosicrucianism and Theosophy, had been very involved with the other aesthetic explorations of this rich artistic period. Influenced by writings of popular occult figures such as the theosophist, Helena Blavatsky, Schuffnecker created Symbolist landscapes peopled with mysterious, hooded figures and scenes of the Meudon region composed of blurred contours and sinuous lines. Upon the advent of Divisionism, Schuffenecker loosely followed Seuratés pointillist technique for several years and was one of the founding members of the 1884 Societé des Artistes Independants along with Signac, Cross, Valtat, and Redon, with whom he formed a close friendship from 1891 to the end of Redones life. Additionally, he experimented with Symbolism from 1890 to 1896, and had earlier organized the Groupe Impressioniste et Synthetiste exhibition with Gauguinés help at the Café Volpini in 1889. However, Schuffenecker was widely known for his astute eye as a collector and had the most important collection in Paris at the turn of the century, including celebrated canvases done by his fellow artists and friends - van Gogh, Cézanne, Gauguin, Redon, Bernard, Degas, Delacroix, and Filiger among others - many of which are now hanging in the major museums of the world. Schuffenecker was first an artist who was always exploring the newest aesthetic experience of the day, but he was also an art theoretician and an avid political and social writer. The subjects of his drawings and paintings included portraits, landscapes in the Ile-de-France, Normandy and Brittany, and his paintings and pastels reflected an impressionist palette integrated within the stylistic inventions of his day.   Schuffenecker died in Paris, 33 rue Olivier de Serres, and was buried at the Montparnasse cemetery, August 3. www.montgomerygallery.com EXHIBITIONSParis, Salon des Artistes Francais: 1877, 1878, 1879, 1881Pairs Salon des Independants: 1884, 1901, 1903, 1904, 1905, 1908, 1909, 1912, 1917Paris, 8th and Final Impressionist Exhibition: 1886 (9 works)Paris, Boussaud et Valadon group show with Paul Gauguin and Federigo Zandomeneghi: 1888Paris, Champs de Mars, Cafe Volpini, 1889"Peintres Impressionistes et Synthetistes", Le Barc de Boutteville": 1891, 1892Paris, One-man exhibition, Librairie de l'Art Independant d'Edmond Bailly: 1896 (37 works)Norway, Galerie C.W. Blomquist with van Gogh, Maufra, Guillaumin, Serusier, Vuillard and Rodin: 1898Paris, Salon des Artistes Independants: 1900Dinard, Villa Desire: 1901 (6 works)Paris, Salon des Independants "30 ans d'Art Independant. Exposition Retrospective": 1926Paris, "Cinquantenaire de l'Art Independant": 1934 (2 works)Paris, Galerie des Beaux-Arts "Gauguin et ses amis, l'Ecole de Pont-Aven et l'Academie Julian": 1934 (7 works)PUBLIC COLLECTIONS:Musee d'Art et d'Histoire, Ville de Meudon, FranceMusee Georges Garret, Vesoul, FranceMusee d'Orsay, ParisKroller-Muller Museum, Otterlo, the NetherlandsMusee des Beaux-Arts de RennesVan Gogh Museum, AmsterdamIndianapolis Museum of Art, the Holliday CollectionMusee-Centre des Arts, FecampWorcester Art Museum, Worcester, MAMusee de Pont-AvenMacKenzie Art Gallery, University of Regina, CanadaMusee des Beaux-Arts, QuimperMusee des Beaux-Arts de BrestThe Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, IthacaYale University Art GalleryFogg Art Museum, Harvard UniversityCincinnati Museum of Art Place a Bid!