19th Century European Paintings
19th Century European Paintings
PROPERTY OF A GENTLEMAN
Auction Closed
July 9, 02:03 PM GMT
Estimate
10,000 - 15,000 GBP
Lot Details
Description
Property of a Gentleman
GUSTAV ADOLF MOSSA
French
1883-1971
Resurrection
signed GUSTAV.ADOLF.MOSSA. / NICIENSIS. PINSIT. MCMVII. lower right and titled RESURRECTION lower left
watercolour, pen and ink and gouache over pencil on paper
sheet: 62 by 47cm., 24¼ by 18½in.
Private collection, Tel Aviv (by 1978)
Sale: Sotheby's, London, 12 June 1996, lot 153
Private collection, USA (sale: Sotheby's, London, 18 November 2003, lot 376)
Purchased at the above sale by the present owner
Jean-Roger Soubiran, 'L'évolution de la technique dans les acquarelles symbolistes de Gustave Adolphe Mossa', in Nice Historique, no. 1, 1976, p. 45
Jean-Roger Soubiran, Les acquarelles symbolistes et la creation plastique symboliste de Gustav Adolf Mossa, ph.D. thesis, Provence, 1978, no. 183
Jean-Roger Soubiran, Gustav Adolf Mossa: 1883-1971, Nice, 1985, p. 183, no. 252, illustrated
Nice, Musée Jules Chéret, Alexis et Gustav Adolf Mossa, peintres niçois, 1974, no. 131
Nice, Galerie des Ponchettes, Gustav-Adolf Mossa (1883-1971) et les symboles, 1978, no. 154, illustrated in the catalogue
Yokohama, Galerie Motomachi, Gustave Adolf Mossa, 1989, no. 12, illustrated in the catalogue
Paris, Pavillon des Arts, G. A. Mossa: L'Oeuvre symboliste 1903-1918, 1992, no. 101, illustrated in the catalogue