Henri Le Sidaner

Le Sidaner’s debut took place at the Salon des Artistes Français in 1891. On that occasion he won a bronze medal and a travel grant. Subsequently, Le Sidaner’s work was exhibited at the Salon de la Societé Nationale. Another bronze medal was awarded to Le Sidaner at the 1900 Exposition Universelle.

The art of this painter of landscapes, interiors and flowers fits among that of the last Impressionists, along with whom he practiced Divisionism (Pointillism), and the undetermined tones and the taste for a certain misty atmosphere, characteristic of Eugène Carrière. Le Sidaner often painted in Bruges, Belgium, and Venice. He was particularly praised for his sunset-like effects of light, as Mauclair (a writer immersed in the spirit of Symbolism) most felicitously recorded.