Auguste Rodin(Paris 1840 – 1917 Meudon) Femme nue debout, de profil à droite (découpage), c.1896-97 Graphite, watercolor, white heightening on vellum paper;laid down on laminated card (bearing the dry stamp of an unidentified collector or papermaker representing a lion in profile); 32 x 13.3 cm (dessin découpé); 49.8 x 36.7 cm (mount).On the verso of…
Édouard Vuillard(Cuiseaux 1868 – 1940 La Baule) Le Pétunia, circa 1889-90 Oil on cardboard, 27.5 x 16.5 cmStamped with the initials lower right EV (Lugt 909a) Provenance:The artist’s studio, Paris;Galerie Bérès, Paris;François Reichenbach, Paris;Private collection, USA;Inna and Boris Salomon, Paris. Literature:Antoine Salomon and Guy Cogeval, Vuillard, Le regard innombrable, Catalogue critique des peintures et pastels,…
Lovis Corinth(Tapiau 1858 – 1925 Zandvoort) ‘Lebensfreude’, 1898 Oil on canvas, 86.5 x 96.5 cmSigned lower left Lovis CorinthNumbered 1237 on a Kunsthalle Basel label pasted to the verso; further numbered 1265 and 240 Provenance:Carl Strathmann (1866-1939), Munich;Dr. H. Bünemann (1895-1976), Munich (lender Basel Kunsthalle 1936)1;Stuttgart, Hartmann Greiner, auction sale, April 5, 1949, lot 8,…
Gustav Klimt(Vienna 1862 – 1918 Vienna) Study for the Painting ‘The Friends’, 1907-8 Red and blue crayon on paper, 55 x 34.8 cmEstate stamp lower left; Provenance:Klimt estateKammersänger Anton Dermota (1910-89), Vienna;Marian Dermota, Vienna. Exhibited:Gustav Klimt, 1862-1918: Zeichnungen. Gedächtnisausstellung, Vienna, Graphische Sammlung Albertina, October 16-December 16, 1962, no. 126. Literature:Alice Strobl, Gustav Klimt. Die Zeichnungen…