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Property from the Meier Family Collection

Henri-François-Clément Somm

Les Parisiennes (Têtes des coquettes)

Auction Closed

May 16, 09:00 PM GMT

Estimate

8,000 - 12,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Property from the Meier Family Collection 

Henri-François-Clément Somm  

1844 - 1907


Les Parisiennes (Têtes des coquettes) 

signed Henri Somm (on the verso

gouache, watercolor and brush and ink on paper 

17 ½ by 11 ½ in. 

44.5 by 29 cm.  

Executed in the 1890s. 

Private Collection 

Galerie Hopkins-Thomas, Paris 

Roger and Laura Meier, Portland (acquired from the above circa 1999) 

Acquired from the above by the present owner

(probably) Paris, Galerie Charpentier, Scènes et figures parisiennes, 1943, no. 90 (titled Têtes de femmes en chapeau)

Portland Art Museum, Paris to Portland: Impressionist and Post-Impressionist Masters in Portland Collections, 2003, n.n., p. 45