A summery Friday night feeling, captured by the French painter, illustrator and lithographer Luigi Loir some time before 1916. The evocative painting shows the Quai de Bourbon in Paris, hazy and iridescent at sunset. “A little methodical perhaps, Loir concentrated exclusively on painting views of Paris, at the time the centre of the world,” explain auctioneers Trinity House Paintings. “In these works, Loir caught and expressed the many faces of the city of lights, at different times of the day.” And did so rather magically, we think.
