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ALFRED STEVENS (BELGIAN, 1823-1906)

Starting price
£ 150 000
Auction dateClassic
13.12.2022 14:00UTC +01:00
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ID 878464
Lot 19 | ALFRED STEVENS (BELGIAN, 1823-1906)
ALFRED STEVENS (BELGIAN, 1823-1906)

Fedora (Portrait of Sarah Bernhardt)

signed and dated 'A Stevens '82' (lower left)

oil on canvas

45 1/2 x 33 7/8 in. (115.6 x 85.8 cm.)





Provenance

Jacques Emmanuel Prosper Crabbe (1827-1889), Brussels.

His sale; Galerie Sedelmeyer, Paris, 12 June 1890, lot 21, illustrated with the engraving, as Fédora.

Baron du Mesnil, probably Léon du Mesnil de Saint-Front, Paris.

Albert Sarens, Brussels, by 1906.

His sale; Galerie Royale, Brussels, 17 December 1923, lot 50, as Fedora.

Mr Reding, Bruxelles.

Purchased from the above by Durand-Ruel, Paris in June 1933.

Purchased from the above by F. Schnittjer and Son, New York, on 8 December 1941.

Their sale; Sotheby Parke Bernet, New York, 14 January 1943, lot 85, as Sarah Bernhardt as Fedora.

Mary Millicent Abigail Rogers (1902-1953), Countess von Salm-Hoogstraeten, New York, by 1944, and by descent to

Count Peter A. Salm (1925-1994), New York, her son, and by descent to his widow.



Literature

A. Wolff, ‘Foedora, pièce en 4 actes, par Victorien Sardou’, Le Gaulois, supplément littéraire, numéro 8, 11 décembre 1882, p.1, illustrated.

H. Flamans, 'L'Exposition internationale,' La Vérité, Paris, 19 May 1883, n.p., as Fédora.

'Exposition international de peinture,' Gazette des Beaux-Arts, vol. XXVIII, Paris, 1 July 1883, p. 79, as Fædora.

P. Demeny, 'Lettres de Belgique,' Le Soir, 3 September 1884, n.p., as Fédora.

Perkéo, 'Lettre de Bruxelles,' Le Figaro, Paris, 3 September 1884, p. 3, as Fédora.

M. Van de Wiele, 'Le salon de Bruxelles,' La Vie Moderne, 6 September 1884, p. 565, illustrated with a drawing, as Fédora.

L. Cardon, 'Les modernistes: Alfred Stevens,' La Federation Artistique, Brussels, 3 April 1886, p. 182, as Fædora.

G. Lafenestre, 'La peinture étrangère à l'Exposition Universelle,' Revue des deux mondes, Paris, 1889, p. 158, as Fédora.

'Figaro-Exposition,' Le Figaro, Paris, 24 July 1889, p. 1, as Fédora.

A. Bloche, 'Le vente du jour,' Le Gaulois, Paris, 17 June 1890, p. 3, as Fédora.

L. Gonse, 'Mouvement des arts: Collection P. Crabbe,' Chronique des arts et de la curiositè, Paris, 21 June 1890, p. 185, as Fédora.

J. Du Jardin, L'art Flamand: Les Artistes Contemporains, Brussels, 1898, vol. V, p. 80, as Fédora.

C. Lemonier, 'Alfred Stevens,' L'art et les artistes, vol. III, Paris, September 1906, p. 112, as Fédora.

C. Lemonier, Alfred Stevens et son ouevre, Brussels, 1906, pp. 25, 31, 41, pl. XXXVI, illustrated, as Fédora.

F. Monod, Un peintre des femmes du Second Empire, Alfred Stevens, Évreux, 1909, p. 17, as Fédora.

J.-L. Vaudoyer, 'Ricard et Stevens: à propos d'un double centenaire,' La Renaissance, January 1924, p. 88, illustrated, as Sarah Bernhardt dans Fedora.

'Ventes à l'Étranger,' La Renaissance, Paris, January 1924, p. 115, as Fédora.

'Les Ventes,' Art et décoration, Paris, January 1924, p. 6, as Fédora.

F. Boucher, Alfred Stevens, Paris, 1930, illustrated, pl. 58, as Fédora: Portrait de Sarah Bernhardt.

G. Van Zype, Les frères Stevens, Brussels, 1936, pp. 50, 101, no. 45, as Fédora.

'Great Ladies of the Stage,' New York Times, 14 January 1940, photogravure section, illustrated, as Sarah Bernhardt.

'For the Red Cross,' The New York Times Magazine, 5 March 1944, section 6, p. 21, illustrated, as Sarah Bernhardt.

R. Cortissoz, 'In the World of the Theater,' New York Herald Tribune, New York, 12 March 1944, section 4, p. 5, illustrated, as Sarah Bernhardt.

P. Mitchell, Alfred Emile Léopold Stevens, London, 1973, pp. 15-16.

P. Mitchell, Alfred Stevens, 1823-1906, London, 2004, p. 31, fig. 24, illustrated, as Fedora (Sarah Bernhardt).

C. Lefebvre, Alfred Stevens 1823-1906, Paris, 2006, pp. 104-106, fig. 117, illustrated, as Fédora.

D. Derrey-Capon, Alfred Stevens (1823-1906) et le panorama de l'Histoire du siècle, Brussels, 2009, p. 85, as Fédora.



Exhibited

Paris, Galerie Georges Petit, Exposition internationale de peinture, 11 May-10 June 1883, p. 13, no. 1, as Fedora.

Paris, Exposition Universelle, 1889, no. 166, as Fedora.

Paris, Figaro Exposition, 1889, p. 61.

Brussels, Maison d'Art avenue de la Toison d’Or, Exposition Alfred Stevens, 30 November - 31 December, 1895.

Paris, École des Beaux-Arts, Exposition de l'œuvre d'Alfred Stevens, 6-27 January 1900, no. 122, as Fédora.

London, Exhibition of a Selection of works by Flemish and Modern Belgian Painters, Guildhall, 1906, no. 206, as Fedora.

Brussels, Musée Moderne, L'oeuvre de Alfred Stevens, April - May 1907; also Antwerp, Musée des Beaux-Arts, May-June 1907, no. 83, as Fédora.

Possibly, New York, Durand-Ruel, 1934.

New York, World's Fair, European and American Painters 1500-1900, May - October 1940, no. 288, as Portrait of Sarah Bernhardt.

New York, Jack Seligmann Galleries, The Stage, 3 - 22 April 1939, no. 37a, as Portrait of Sarah Bernhardt.

Montclair, NJ, Montclair Art Museum, Personalities of the Theater, 2 - 28 January 1940, no. 7, as Sarah Bernhardt.

San Francisco, California Palace of the Legion of Honor, Vanity Fair, 16 June - 16 July 1942, p. 17, no. 48, illustrated, as Portrait of Sarah Bernhardt.

New York, Wildenstein Gallery, Stars of Yesterday and Today, 7 March - 4 April, 1944, p. 7, no. 7, illustrated, p. 9, as Sarah Bernhardt.

New York, Portraits, Inc., Portraits of Yesterday and Today, 24 April - 21 May 1968, no. 89, as Sarah Bernhardt.

Washington, D.C., National Portrait Gallery, Portraits of the American Stage, 1771-1971, 11 September - 31 October 1971, p. 70-71, no. 30, illustrated, as Sarah Bernhardt in the title role of Victorien Sardou's 'Fédora'.

Ann Arbor, The University of Michigan Museum of Art, Alfred Stevens, 10 September - 16 October 1977; also Baltimore, The Walters Art Gallery, 20 November 1977 - 1 January 1978; and Montréal, Musée des Beaux-Arts Montréal, 2 February - 19 March 1978, p. 81, no. 35, illustrated, p. 80, as Fedora (Sarah Bernhardt).



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