ID 1059489
Lot 545 | ÉDOUARD MANET (1832-1883)
Estimate value
$ 400 000 – 600 000
Femme au noeud bleu (L'Inconnue)
signed with initial 'M.' (lower right)
pastel on canvas
20 ½ x 17 ¼ in. (55 x 46 cm.)
Executed in 1881
Provenance
(possibly) Mme Mouchot, Paris (acquired from the artist); Estate sale, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 6 June 1879, lot. 197.
Dr. Georges de Bellio, Paris (by 1884).
Donop de Monchy, Paris (by descent from the above, by 1900).
Galerie Louis Carré, Paris.
Paul Rosenberg & Co., New York.
Estella Katzenellenbogen, Santa Monica (by 1942).
Walter Feilchenfeldt, Zurich (acquired from the above, 1954).
The Lefevre Gallery (Alex. Reid & Lefevre, Ltd.), London (acquired from the above, October 1954).
W.A. Cargill, London (acquired from the above, November 1955).
The Lefevre Gallery (Alex. Reid & Lefevre, Ltd.), London (acquired from the above, December 1955).
Acquired from the above by the present owner, January 1958.
Literature
T. Duret, Histoire de Édouard Manet et de son oeuvre, Paris, 1902, p. 292, no. 38.
E. Moreau-Nélaton, Manet: Raconté par lui-même, Paris, 1926, no. 128 (illustrated in situ in the 1884 exhibition at the École Nationale des Beaux-Arts, Paris, fig. 352).
A. Tabarant, Manet, Histoire catalographique, Pastels, 1931, no. 53.
P. Jamot, G. Wildenstein and M.-L. Bataille, Manet: L'oeuvre de l'artiste en quatre cent quatre-vingts phototypies, Paris, 1932, no. 349 (illustrated, fig. 243).
A. Tabarant, Manet et ses oeuvres, 1947, p. 430 (illustrated, fig. 514).
R.H. Hubbard, European Paintings in Canadian Collections, Modern School, Toronto, 1962, vol. II, p. 154.
R. Niculescu, Georges de Bellio: l'ami des impressionnistes, 1964, no. 2, pp. 266-269, no. 152 (illustrated in situ in the apartment of Georges de Bellio in Paris, circa 1890, pl. 36; dated 1879-1881 and titled Une Parisienne).
D. Rouart and S. Orienti, Tout l'oeuvre peint d'Édouard Manet, 1970, no. 37.
D. Rouart and D. Wildenstein, Édouard Manet: Catalogue raisonné, Geneva, 1975, vol. 2, p. 22, no. 57 (illustrated).
Exhibited
Paris, École Nationale des Beaux-Arts, Exposition des oeuvres de Édouard Manet, January 1884, p. 4, no. 128 (titled Tête de femme).
Paris, Exposition internationale universelle, Exposition centennale de l'art français (1800-1899), 1900, no. 1151 (titled Parisienne).
Berlin, Galerie Paul Cassirer, Exposition des Impressionnistes, 1925.
Berlin, Galerie Matthiesen, Ausstellung Édouard Manet, Gemälde, Pastelle, Aquarelle, Zeichnungen, February-March 1928, p. 40, no. 71 (illustrated, pl. LXIX; titled Damenbildnis ("Die Unbekannte")).
Paris, Musée de l'Orangerie, Exposition Manet, 1932, p. 71, no. 92 (dated circa 1879-1881).
Rotterdam, Museum Boymans, Schilderijen van Delacroix tot Cezanne en Vincent van Gogh, December 1933-January 1934, p. 18, no. 51 (illustrated, pl. XV; dated circa 1879-1881).
San Francisco, Palace of Fine Arts, Golden Gate International Exhibition, 1940.
New York, Wildenstein & Co. Inc., A Loan Exhibition of Manet, for the Benefit of the New York Infirmary, February-April 1948, p. 59, no. 31 (illustrated, p. 54; dated 1879).
London, The Lefevre Gallery (Alex. Reid & Lefevre, Ltd.), A Group of French Painting of the XIXth and XXth Centuries, November 1954, p. 9, no. 11 (illustrated; dated 1879).
Further Details
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| Artist: | Édouard Manet (1832 - 1883) |
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