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Anonymous sale, [Sotheby’s, London 2 December 1987, lot 441, sold £7,600]. [JPL Fine Arts, London, by 1993]. Anonymous sale, [Sotheby’s, London, 4 December 1996, lot 328, sold £9,000]; private collection; [Christie's, London, 19 June, 2007, lot 42, sold £11,000]; [Stephen Ongpin Fine Art, London, UK]; purchased by the Princeton University Art Museum, 2009.\n","remarks":"Purchased from Ongpin for $34,000 [discounted from $38,000]."},{"texttype":"Online","textpurpose":"Gallery Label","textentryhtml":"<p>\n\tHundreds of distinct brushstrokes—blues, greens, browns, purples, yellows—mingle on this sheet; they swirl, assemble, and dissipate into the spray of a wave smashing against a rocky coast. Influenced by scientific publications on optics and the perception of color, Neo-Impressionists such as Petitjean adopted a method in which they placed unmixed colors side by side, with the expectation that the colors would mix optically in the act of perception, resulting in more luminous images. 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