Lot Essay
The present work is a study for Paysanne aux tulipes (Bataille and Wildenstein, no. 247), located at the Dixon Gallery and Gardens, Memphis.
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PROPERTY FROM A PRESTIGOUS PRIVATE COLLECTION, CANADA
BERTHE MORISOT (1841-1895)
Jeune paysanne
Details
BERTHE MORISOT (1841-1895)
Jeune paysanne
stamped with initals 'B.M' (Lugt 388a; lower left)
pastel on pink paper laid down on board
16 ¾ x 12 ½ in. (42.5 x 32 cm.)
Drawn in Mézy in 1890
Jeune paysanne
stamped with initals 'B.M' (Lugt 388a; lower left)
pastel on pink paper laid down on board
16 ¾ x 12 ½ in. (42.5 x 32 cm.)
Drawn in Mézy in 1890
Provenance
Julie Manet, Paris (daughter of the artist).
Anson Conger Goodyear, New York.
Charles E. Slatkin Galleries, New York (by 1959).
Private collection, Montreal.
By descent from the above to the late owner, 2012.
Anson Conger Goodyear, New York.
Charles E. Slatkin Galleries, New York (by 1959).
Private collection, Montreal.
By descent from the above to the late owner, 2012.
Literature
M.-L. Bataille and G. Wildenstein, Berthe Morisot: Catalogue des peintures, dessins et aquarelles, Paris, 1961, p. 58, no. 562 (illustrated, fig. 540).
Exhibited
Paris, Galerie Dru, Berthe Morisot: Portraits et figures de femmes, 1928, no. 31.
New York, Charles E. Slatkin Galleries, French Master Drawings: Renaissance to Modern, February-March 1959, no. 109 (illustrated; titled Head of a Child).
Museum of Fine Arts Boston; New York, Charles E. Slatkin Galleries; San Francisco, California Palace of the Legion of Honor and Minneapolis Institute of Fine Arts, Berthe Morisot: Drawings, Pastels, Watercolors, Paintings, October 1960-February 1961, p. 121 (illustrated in color, pl. 43; titled Study for "Girl Among the Tulips").
Baltimore Museum of Art, Paintings, Four Paris Painters: Drawings and Graphic Works by Manet, Degas, Berthe Morisot and Mary Cassatt, April-June 1962, no. 92 (titled Head of a Girl (Study for "Girl among the Tulips")).
Palm Beach, The Society of the Four Arts, Auguste Rodin and Berthe Morisot, March 1965.
New York, Charles E. Slatkin Galleries, French Master Drawings: Renaissance to Modern, February-March 1959, no. 109 (illustrated; titled Head of a Child).
Museum of Fine Arts Boston; New York, Charles E. Slatkin Galleries; San Francisco, California Palace of the Legion of Honor and Minneapolis Institute of Fine Arts, Berthe Morisot: Drawings, Pastels, Watercolors, Paintings, October 1960-February 1961, p. 121 (illustrated in color, pl. 43; titled Study for "Girl Among the Tulips").
Baltimore Museum of Art, Paintings, Four Paris Painters: Drawings and Graphic Works by Manet, Degas, Berthe Morisot and Mary Cassatt, April-June 1962, no. 92 (titled Head of a Girl (Study for "Girl among the Tulips")).
Palm Beach, The Society of the Four Arts, Auguste Rodin and Berthe Morisot, March 1965.
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