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Gustave Moreau Paris 1826 - 1898
Estimate
300,000 - 400,000 USD
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Description
- Gustave Moreau
- devineresse à l'oiseau bleu
- signed and inscribed in pen and brown ink: Gustave Moreau and: Vente de Charité and on the original backing board signed with monogram and inscribed in pen and ink: Vente de Charité/Amis de L' Enfance/G.M. and blue chalk numbering: 0346
- watercolor, with touches of gouache and of pen and brown ink;
within chalk framing lines and broad margins
Provenance
Francis Warrain;
Private collection, Paris;
sale, Paris, Hotel Drouot-Richelieu,18 June 1997, lot 31
Private collection, Paris;
sale, Paris, Hotel Drouot-Richelieu,18 June 1997, lot 31
Exhibited
Paris, Galerie Georges Petit, Gustave Moreau, 1906, no. 208;
Paris, Le Bateau-Lavoir, Dessins Symbolistes, March-April 1958
Paris, Le Bateau-Lavoir, Dessins Symbolistes, March-April 1958
Literature
Pierre-Louis Mathieu, Gustave Moreau, Paris 1976, p. 358, no. 397, reproduced (measurements given are of the image, not the entire sheet);
idem, Gustave Moreau, Monographie et nouveau catalogue raisonné de l'oeuvre achevé, Paris 1998, p. 412, no. 434 reproduced (measurements given are of the image, not the entire sheet)
idem, Gustave Moreau, Monographie et nouveau catalogue raisonné de l'oeuvre achevé, Paris 1998, p. 412, no. 434 reproduced (measurements given are of the image, not the entire sheet)
Catalogue Note
Mathieu proposed a date of circa 1892 for this very characteristic work by Moreau (see Literature). The artist made a number of such watercolors of single female figures with symbolist subjects, of similar dimensions. It would appear that they were made for sale to collectors: in 1893 Moreau entered into an agreement with the Allard et Noël Gallery to supply them with small precious works for their clients.