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Property of a Private Collector

Berthe Morisot

Devant la toilette

Auction Closed

May 17, 12:56 AM GMT

Estimate

1,200,000 - 1,800,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Property of a Private Collector

Berthe Morisot

1841 - 1895


Devant la toilette

stamped with the signature Berthe Morisot (lower right)

oil on canvas

25 ⅝ by 21 ⅜ in. 65.2 by 54.2 cm.

Executed in 1894.

Ambroise Vollard, Paris (until at least 1929)
Carstairs Gallery, New York
Mr. and Mrs. S.E. Worms, New York (acquired from the above by 1952)
Hirschl & Adler Galleries Inc., New York (acquired from the estates of the above)
Sam Porter Fine Arts, Great Neck
Murray and Irene Pergament, Palm Beach (acquired from the above)
Sotheby’s, New York, 9 May 2007, lot 126 (consigned by the estates of the above)
Acquired at the above sale by the family of the present owner 
Monique Angoulvent, Berthe Morisot, Paris, 1933, no. 643 (titled La Toilette)
Marie-Louise Bataille and Georges Wildenstein, Berthe Morisot, Catalogue des peintures, pastels et aquarelles, Paris 1961, no. 407, fig. 397, p. 50, illustrated 
Alain Clairet, Delphine Montalant and Yves Rouart, Berthe Morisot, 1841-1895, Catalogue Raisonné de l’Oeuvre Peint, Montolivet, 1997, no. 413, p. 316, illustrated
Paris, Galerie Marcel Bernheim, Réunion d’oeuvres par Berthe Morisot, 1922, no. 52 (titled La toilette)
Paris, Galerie Bernheim-Jeune, Exposition d'oeuvres de Berthe Morisot, 1929, no. 84 (titled Jeune fille se coiffant)
New York, Wildenstein & Co., Inc., Loan Exhibition of Paintings, Berthe Morisot, 1960, no. 69, illustrated