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CARLOS SCHWABE (SWISS, 1866-1926)

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£ 250 000
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13.12.2022 14:00UTC +01:00
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Lot 30 | CARLOS SCHWABE (SWISS, 1866-1926)
CARLOS SCHWABE (SWISS, 1866-1926)

Le Destin

signed and dated 'CARLOS SCHWABE 94' (lower left)

pencil, watercolour and gouache on artist's board

17 1/2 x 26 1/2 in. (44.5 x 67.3 cm.)





Provenance

Robert Brussel, France, and thence by descent.

Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, Monaco, 5 December 1989, lot 553.

with MDG Fine Arts, London, from whom purchased by the present owner in 2003.



Literature

É. Couvreu, ‘Les artistes suisses à Paris’ in Gazette de Lausanne, 4 June 1895.

P. Desjardins, ‘L’art volontaire:Carloz Schwabe’ in Journal des débats, 15 June 1895.

M. Pujo, ‘L’idée de pureté et l’idée de mort’ in L’Art et la vie, January 1895, pp. 6-7.

E. Joly, ‘Durendal aux aquarellistes’ in Durendal, January 1895, pp. 20-1.

R. Marx, ‘Comptes rendus des Salons de 1895’ in Gazette des Beaux-Arts, July - August 1895, p. 110.

M. Pujo, ‘Un maître de l’art nouveau : Carloz Schwabe’ in L’Art et la vie, April 1895, p. 278.

C. Saunier, ‘Petites exposition. Les peintres de l’âme’ in Revue encyclopédique, 4 April 1896, p. 236.

A. Germain, ‘Alexandre Séon et Carloz Schwabe’, in L’Ermitage, June 1897, p. 386.

M. Morhardt, ‘Carloz Schwabe’ in Revue populaire des Beaux-Arts, 17 September 1898, p. 244.

G. Soulier, ‘Carlos Schwabe’ in Art et décoration, May 1899, pp. 137-138.

G. Soulier, ‘Artisti contemporanei: Carlos Schwabe’ in Emporium (Bergamo) March 1900, pp. 183-185.

G. Séailles, ‘Carlos Schwabe’ in Schweizerischer Kunst un literaturkalender, Bern, 1914, p. 135.

M. Morhardt, ‘Carlos Schwab’ in Carlos Schwab, exh. cat., Geneva, Galerie Moos, 1920, p. 7.

L. Florentin, ‘Carlos Schwab’ in Pages d’art, 1926, v. 12, p. 110.

C. Külling, ‘Carlos Schwabe et sa fortune critique’ in Revue Suisse d’Art et archéologie 40, 1983, pp. 60-84.

J.-D. Jumeau-Lafond, ‘Une autre lumière, Carlos Schwabe, l’idéalisme et la mort’ in L’Écrit-Voir 8, 1986, pp. 53-4, illustrated.

Carlos Schwabe, exh. cat., Geneva, Musée d’Art et d’Histoire, 1987, pp. 13-4, illustrated.

J.-D. Jumeau-Lafond, ‘Guillaume Lekeu et Carlos Schwabe, une haute confraternité artistique’ in Revue de musicologie, vol. 74, no. 1, pp. 54-68, fig. 3, illustrated.

L. Verdebout, Guillaume Lekeu : correspondance, Liège, 1993, p. 25.

J.-D. Jumeau-Lafond, Carlos Schwabe, peintre symboliste, essai et catalogue de l’œuvre, doctoral thesis, Université de Clermont-Ferrand II, 1994, T. I, pp.70-72, 251, T. II, pp. 82-83, no. 101, illustrated.

J.-D. Jumeau-Lafond, Carlos Schwabe, symboliste et visionnaire, Courbevoie, 1994, pp. 69-71, illustrated.



Exhibited

Brussels, 35th Salon de la Société Royale Belge des aquarellistes, 1894, no. 153.

Paris, Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts, 1895, no. 1886.

Paris, Théâtre d’application de la Bodinière, Exposition des Artistes de l’âme, 22 February – 13 March 1896, no. 29.

Paris, Galerie Georges Petit, Exposition Carlos Schwab, 19 - 30 April 1927, no. 84 (lent by Robert Brussel).



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