ID 1362858
Lot 198 | FERNAND KHNOPFF (1858-1921)
Estimate value
£ 70 000 – 100 000
Le collier de médailles
signed with monogram 'FK' (interwined, lower right) and signed again 'Fernard Khnopff' (lower border), monogramed 'FK' (interwined, in a trefoil, heightened with white chalk, on the pase-partout in the centre)
graphite heightened with pastel highlights and a coat of varnish on cardboard
6 5/8 x 4 ¾ in. (17 x 12 cm.)
Executed in 1899.
Provenance
David Gould (1922-2004).
with J.S. Maas & Co. Ltd., London, (stock number W6122), April 1967,
from whom acquired by the late Barry Humphries, 12 May 1967.
Literature
H. Frantz, 'L'Art à Paris', in L'Art Moderne, Brussels, 15 December 1901, p. 417, no. 50.
L. Dumont-Wilden, Fernand Khnopff, 1907, p. 72.
Maria Biermé, Les Artistes de la pensée et du sentiment, Brussels, 1911, pp. 3, 32.
R.L. Delevoy, C. de Croës and G. Ollinger-Zinque, Fernand Khnopff, Brussels, 1987, no. 333, illustrated.
Fernard Khnopff, exh. cat., Royal Museums of Fine Art of Belgium, Brussels, 2004, p. 176, no. 110.
Exhibited
Termonde, 1899, no. 104.
Bruxelles, Les Aquarellistes, 1899, no. 63.
Paris, Galerie Georges Petit, Société Moderne des Beaux- Arts, 1901, no. 45.
Louvain, Quadriennale, 1902, no. 55.
Bruxelles, Musée Moderne, L'Estampe, 1910, no. 369.
Liège, Fernand Khnopff, 1912, no. 17.
Florence, Bianco e Nero, 1914, no. 33.
Paris, Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Fernand Khnopff, October-December 1979, no. 108.
Brussels, Royal Museum of Fine Arts of Belgium, Fernand Khnopff, January-May 2004, no. 100; this exhibition later travelled to Boston, McMullen Museum of Art, September-December 2004.
| Artist: | Fernand Knopff (1858 - 1921) |
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| Applied technique: | Pencil |
| Medium: | Acrylic glass, Plastic |
| Art style: | Symbolism |
| Place of origin: | Belgium, Western Europe, Europe |
| Auction house category: | Paintings, Watercolors, Drawings, Watercolors and drawings |
| Artist: | Fernand Knopff (1858 - 1921) |
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| Applied technique: | Pencil |
| Medium: | Acrylic glass, Plastic |
| Art style: | Symbolism |
| Place of origin: | Belgium, Western Europe, Europe |
| Auction house category: | Paintings, Watercolors, Drawings, Watercolors and drawings |
| Address of auction |
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