GUSTAVE MOREAU (FRENCH, 1826-1898)

Lot 5
13.12.2022 14:00UTC +00:00
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£ 200 000
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ID 878478
Lot 5 | GUSTAVE MOREAU (FRENCH, 1826-1898)
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£ 200 000 – 300 000
GUSTAVE MOREAU (FRENCH, 1826-1898)

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.



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