Henri Beau
(1863 - 1949)
Previously Sold Works
HENRI BEAU
Summer in the Garden
oil on canvas
signed and dated 1895 lower right
15 x 18 ins ( 38.1 x 45.7 cms )
Auction Estimate: $5,000.00 - $7,000.00
Price Realized $60,000.00
Sale date: June 8th 2023
HENRI BEAU
Piano Lesson
oil on canvas
signed lower right
18 x 21.75 ins ( 45.7 x 55.2 cms )
Auction Estimate: $3,000.00 - $5,000.00
Price Realized $10,800.00
Sale date: December 1st 2022
HENRI BEAU
Dimanche après-midi
oil on canvas
signed and dated 1895 lower left; titled to a label on the reverse
15 x 13 ins ( 38.1 x 33 cms )
Auction Estimate: $5,000.00 - $7,000.00
Price Realized $21,600.00
Sale date: September 12th 2023
HENRI BEAU
Nu dans un paysage
oil on canvas
initialed lower left; titled and dated c. 1905 to a gallery label on the reverse
66.76 x 9.75 ins ( 169.6 x 24.8 cms )
Auction Estimate: $1,500.00 - $2,500.00
Price Realized $2,640.00
Sale date: February 1st 2022
HENRI BEAU
Paysage au cyprès
oil on wood panel
signed lower left
16.25 x 13 ins ( 41.3 x 33 cms )
Auction Estimate: $600.00 - $800.00
Price Realized $1,680.00
Sale date: May 30th 2023
HENRI BEAU
Paysage d’été, Lac d’Europe
oil on board
signed lower right
10 x 11.5 ins ( 25.4 x 29.2 cms )
Auction Estimate: $1,000.00 - $2,000.00
Price Realized $900.00
Sale date: September 12th 2023
HENRI BEAU
Place du village
watercolour
signed lower right; titled to a gallery label on the reverse
6 x 7 ins ( 15.2 x 17.8 cms ) ( sight )
Auction Estimate: $250.00 - $350.00
Price Realized $840.00
Sale date: October 26th 2021
HENRI BEAU
Ploumanac’h, Coté de Bretagne
oil on board
signed lower right; titled on the reverse
10.25 x 13.75 ins ( 26 x 34.9 cms )
Auction Estimate: $500.00 - $700.00
Price Realized $840.00
Sale date: October 26th 2021
HENRI BEAU
Mother and Child in the Garden
mixed media
signed lower right
13.5 x 10.75 ins ( 34.3 x 27.3 cms )
Auction Estimate: $500.00 - $700.00
Price Realized $510.00
Sale date: June 1st 2021
HENRI BEAU
Paysage avec des arbres
charcoal and watercolour
initialed lower right
5.5 x 7.5 ins ( 14 x 19.1 cms ) ( sight )
Auction Estimate: $100.00 - $150.00
Price Realized $207.00
Sale date: October 22nd 2019
H. Beau Biography
(1863 - 1949)
Henri Beau belongs to the generation of Quebec painters who went to Paris in the 1880s to pursue their artistic training. After studying at the École des Beaux-Arts and attending private academies in the capital, the native Montrealer pursued a career in France. Beau is recognized for his historical paintings and stood out in Parisian salons with impressionist landscapes reminiscent of Monet’s technique. Alongside his work as an illustrator for the Public Archives of Canada in Paris (1921-1938), Beau produced portraits, landscapes, still lifes and genre scenes. The retrospective exhibition that the Musée du Québec (today the Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec) organized in 1987 highlighted his intimate paintings, which represent the interior of his studio apartment on l’Allée Maintenon, located in a dead end of the rue de Vaugirard, in Paris. In addition, the French state acquired one of these intimate scenes in 1939, which is now in the collection of the Musée de Nevers.
