The European Art Sale

The European Art Sale

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Property of an Important Collector

Jean-Léon Gérôme

La Joueuse de Boules

Lot Closed

May 20, 06:10 PM GMT

Estimate

300,000 - 500,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Property of an Important Collector

Jean-Léon Gérôme

French

1824 - 1904

La Joueuse de Boules



signed J. L. GEROME

tinted marble

height 64 ½ in.; 163.8 cm

Princess Talleyrand, neé Anne Gould, Palais Rose, 40 Avenue Foch, Paris; 

Shepherd Gallery Associates, New York, circa 1966; 

Princess Gemma Lee, Korea; 

Hans Neuffer, Vienna; 

Stuart Pivar Collection, New York; 

The Jordan-Volpe Gallery, New York, 1982.

H.W. Janson and Peter Fusco eds., The Romantics to Rodin: French Nineteenth Century Sculpture from North American Collections, exhibition catalogue, Los Angeles, California, 1980, pp. 289-290, cat no. 156, (illus.);
H.W. Janson, 19th Century Sculpture, New York, 1985, pp. 191 (illus.);
G. Ackerman, The Life and Work of Jean-Léon Gérôme, Paris, 1986, pp 152, cat. no. S. 57 (illus.);
L. des Cars, D. de Font-Reaulx, and E. Papet eds., The Spectacular Art of Jean-Léon Gérôme, Los Angeles, 2010, cat no. 189 (illus.);
E. Bowyer, Like Life: Sculpture, Color, and the Body, exhibition catalogue, New York, 2018, cat. no 38 (illus.).


Cercle de l'Union Artistique, 1901;
Paris, Salon of 1902, no. 2507;
Los Angeles, California, Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Minneapolis, Minnesota, Minneapolis Institute of Art; Detroit, Michigan, Detroit Institute of Arts; Indianapolis, Indiana, Indianapolis Museum of Art, The Romantics to Rodin: French Nineteenth Century Sculpture from North American Collections, February 1980 - May 1981, cat no. 156;
Los Angeles, California, The Getty Center, The Spectacular Art of Jean-Léon Gérôme, 15 June - 12 September 2010.