Berthe Morisot

Danseuse de corde

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Lot Closed

May 27, 01:19 PM GMT

Estimate

150,000 - 200,000 GBP

Lot Details

Description

Property from a Distinguished American Collection

Berthe Morisot

1841 - 1895

Danseuse de corde

signed Berthe Morisot (lower right)

pastel on paper

60.9 by 46cm., 24 ½ by 18 ¾ in.

Framed: 81.3 by 66cm., 32 ¾ by 26 ½ in.

Executed in 1886.

Mme Julie Manet-Rouart, Paris

Dr & Mrs Julien Rouart, Paris (by descent from the above. Sold: Ferri Scp., Paris, Importants dessins et tableaux impressionnistes provenant de la succession de Madame Julien Rouart, 27th November 1997, lot 5)

Galerie Hopkins-Thomas, Paris

Private Collection (acquired from the above)

Hammer Galleries, New York

Acquired from the above by the family of the present owner in 2011

Théodore Duret, Histoire des Impressionnistes, Paris, 1939, illustrated p. 147
Louis Rouart, Berthe Morisot, Paris, 1941, illustrated p. 35
Marie-Louise Bataille & Guy Wildenstein, Berthe Morisot, Catalogue des peintures, pastels et aquarelles, Paris, 1916, no. 504, illustrated pl. 55

Paris, Galerie Dru, Pastels, aquarelles, dessins, crayons de Berthe Morisot, 1926, no. 15
Paris, Galerie Bernheim-Jeune, Berthe Morisot, 1929, no. 155
Paris, Palais du Louvre, Pavillon de Marsan, Le décor et la vie sous la IIIème République de 1870 à 1900, 1933, no. 380
Paris, Galerie Bernheim-Jeune, Cent ans de théâtre, music-hall et cirque, 1936, no. 72
Paris, Musée de l'Orangerie, Berthe Morisot, 1941, no. 286
Paris, Galerie André Weill, Berthe Morisot, 1947
Paris, Durand-Ruel, Berthe Morisot, pastels, aquarelles, dessins, 1948, no. 25
Copenhagen, Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek, Berthe Morisot, 1949, no. 63
Paris, Musée Jacquemart-André, Berthe Morisot, 1961, no. 112