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Night, after Michelangelo
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Walter Spindler (1878-1940)
Night, after Michelangelo
signed 'WALTER SPINDLER, dedicated and dated '.SARAH.BERNHARDT.MDCCCXCVIII.' and inscribed 'LA.NOTTE.DE.MICHELANGELO', 'GRATO.M.E.'L.SONNO.E.PIV.L'ESSER.DI.SASSO/MENTRE.CHE'L.DANNO.E.LA. VERG OGNA.DURA./NON.VEDER.NON.SENTIR.M'E.GRAN.VENTURA/PERO.NON.MI.DESTAR.DEH .PARLA.BASSO.'
black and red chalk, pen and brown ink, watercolour, bodycolour heightened with gold on blue paper
211 x 267 mm. (8¼ x 10½ in.)
Night, after Michelangelo
signed 'WALTER SPINDLER, dedicated and dated '.SARAH.BERNHARDT.MDCCCXCVIII.' and inscribed 'LA.NOTTE.DE.MICHELANGELO', 'GRATO.M.E.'L.SONNO.E.PIV.L'ESSER.DI.SASSO/MENTRE.CHE'L.DANNO.E.LA. VERG OGNA.DURA./NON.VEDER.NON.SENTIR.M'E.GRAN.VENTURA/PERO.NON.MI.DESTAR.DEH .PARLA.BASSO.'
black and red chalk, pen and brown ink, watercolour, bodycolour heightened with gold on blue paper
211 x 267 mm. (8¼ x 10½ in.)
Provenance
Sarah Bernhardt; Paris, 11-13 June 1923 (165 francs, according to Benezit, IX, p. 750).
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