ID 878478
Lot 5 | GUSTAVE MOREAU (FRENCH, 1826-1898)
Estimate value
£ 200 000 – 300 000
Femme et Licorne
signed ‘- Gustave Moreau –' (lower left)
watercolour and gouache on paper
14 3/4 x 8 5/8 in. (37.5 x 21.8 cm.)
Executed in 1885.
Provenance
Dr Edmund Rousseau.
Anonymous sale; Galleria, Paris, 4 December 1972, lot 12, as La femme à la licorne.
Purchased by a private Japanese collector in 1980.
Literature
P.-L. Mathieu, Gustave Moreau his Life and Works, Catalogue of his Completed Works, Paris-Boston, 1977, p. 353, no. 322, illustrated.
P.-L. Mathieu, Gustave Moreau: Monograph and New Catalogue of Completed Works, Paris, 1998, p.390, no. 362, illustrated.
Special Notice
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| Artist: | Gustave Moreau (1826 - 1898) |
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| Artist: | Gustave Moreau (1826 - 1898) |
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