Fernand Khnopff (1858-1921)
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Fernand Khnopff (1858-1921)

Etude de femme

Details
Fernand Khnopff (1858-1921)
Etude de femme
signed with monogram 'FK' (lower right)
sanguine and blue crayon on laid paper laid down on paper
5½ x 3¼in. (14 x 8.2cm.)
Drawn circa 1910
Provenance
Suse, Hamburg.
Baron Hans-Heinrich von Thyssen-Bornemisza, Lugano.
Wolf Uecker, Lausanne.
Piccadilly Gallery, London.
Barry Friedman, New York.
Anon. sale, Sotheby's, London, 17 June 1992, lot 340.
Literature
R. Delevoy, C. de Croës, G. Ollinger-Zinque, Fernand Khnopff, Brussels, 1987, no. 476, p. 366 (illustrated p. 367).
Exhibited
London, Piccadilly Gallery, Symbolist and other works by Belgian artists c. 1880-1940, 1982, no. 41.
Wilmington, Delaware Art Museum, Fernand Khnopff and the Belgian Avant Garde, 1984. This exhibition later travelled to Chicago and New York.
Newport, Newport Harbor Art Museum, Flemish Expressions: Representational Painting in the 20th Century, December 1986-February 1987, no. 41.
Special notice
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Sale room notice
Please note the present work is hinged twice to the mount at the reverse upper sheet edges, not laid down on paper as the catalogue indicates.

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