ID 842743
Lot 54 | EDOUARD MANET (1832-1883)
Estimate value
$ 4 000 000 – 6 000 000
Le bal de l'Opéra
signed 'Manet.' (lower right)
oil on canvas
14 1/2 x 11 1/8 in. (36.7 x 28.2 cm.)
Painted in 1873
Provenance
Estate of the artist.
Cherfils, Paris (until circa 1892).
Ambroise Vollard, Paris.
Leo and Gertrude Stein, Paris (probably acquired from the above, by February 1909).
Gertrude Stein, Paris (acquired from Leo Stein, circa 1914-1915).
Paul Rosenberg, Paris (acquired from the above, 15 October 1919).
Halfdan Mustad, Oslo (by 1929, then by descent until at least 1971).
Private collection, Switzerland.
Private collection, Europe; sale, Sotheby's, New York, 3 December 1996, lot 23.
Acquired by the late owners, 2019.
Literature
T. Duret, Histoire d'Edouard Manet et de son oeuvre, Paris, 1902, p. 231, no. 155 (with inverted dimensions).
E. Moreau-Nélaton, Manet raconté par lui-même, Paris, 1926, vol. II, p. 7 (illustrated, fig. 179).
P. Jamot, "L'art français en Norvège" in La Renaissance, no. 2, February 1929, p. 93 (illustrated; titled Etude pour le bal de l'Opéra).
P. Jamot and G. Wildenstein, Manet, Paris, 1932, vol. I, p. 145, no. 217 (illustrated, vol. II, p. 181, fig. 363; titled Esquisse du bal de l'Opéra).
A. Tabarant, Manet et ses oeuvres, Paris, 1947, p. 232, no. 218.
M. Florisoone, Manet, Monaco, 1947, p. 60 (illustrated; titled Etude pour le bal de l'Opéra).
D. Rouart and S. Orienti, L’opera pittorica di Edouard Manet, Milan, 1970, pp. 102-103, no. 189B (illustrated).
D. Rouart and D. Wildenstein, Edouard Manet: Catalogue raisonné, Geneva, 1975, vol. I, p. 180, no. 214 (illustrated, p. 181).
Exhibited
New York, Museum of Modern Art, Four Americans in Paris: the Collections of Gertrude Stein and Her Family, December 1970-March 1971, p. 122, pl. 21 (illustrated).
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; Paris, Réunion des Musées Nationaux and New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Steins Collect: Matisse, Picasso and the Parisian Avant-Garde, May 2011-June 2013, pp. 97, 405 and 460, no. 81 (illustrated in color, p 96, pl. 48).
| Artist: | Édouard Manet (1832 - 1883) |
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| Applied technique: | Oil on canvas |
| Art style: | Impressionism |
| Place of origin: | Western Europe, France, Europe |
| Auction house category: | Paintings |
| Artist: | Édouard Manet (1832 - 1883) |
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| Applied technique: | Oil on canvas |
| Art style: | Impressionism |
| Place of origin: | Western Europe, France, Europe |
| Auction house category: | Paintings |
| Address of auction |
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