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LUCIEN LEVY-DHURMER (1865-1953)

Lot 144
13.05.2025 10:00UTC -04:00
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Event locationUSA, New York
ID 1423084
Lot 144 | LUCIEN LEVY-DHURMER (1865-1953)
Estimate value
$ 80 000 – 120 000
LUCIEN LEVY-DHURMER (1865-1953)
Eve
signed and dated 'L Levy-DHUR/MER/1896' (on the apple, lower right)
pastel highlighted with gold over pencil on paper on canvas
19 x 18 1/8 in. (48.3 x 46.1 cm.)




Provenance

Mme. Th. Singer (acquired from the artist).
Michel Périnet, Paris (by 1970, until at least 1976).
Barry Friedman Gallery, Ltd., New York (1985).



Literature

G. Mourey, "A Dream Painter, M. L. Lévy-Dhurmer" in The Studio, vol. 10, no. 47, February 1897, p. 11.
G. Soulier, "Lévy-Dhurmer" in Art et Décoration, revue mensuelle d'art moderne, vol. 2, no. 1, January 1898, pp. 6 and 8 (illustrated with the engraving).
P. Jullian, "Autour de trois peintres symbolistes d'étranges beautés" in Plaisir de France, January 1971, p. 42, no. 4 (illustrated).
J. Warnod, "Ces rêveurs méconnus, les peintres symbolistes français" in Jardin des Arts, July-August 1972, p. 5, (illustrated; titled Ce serpent ne messied pas à Eve).



Exhibited

Paris, Galerie Georges Petit, Tableaux et pastels de M. L. Lévy-Dhurmer, January-February 1896, no. 14.
Paris, Musée Galliéra, Esthètes et Magiciens: Symbolistes des collections parisiennes, December 1970-January 1971, no. 82.
London, Hayward Gallery and Liverpool, Walker Art Gallery, French Symbolist Painters: Moreau, Puvis de Chavannes, Redon and Their Followers, June-September 1972, p. 69, no. 115, illustrated.
Madrid, Museo Español de Arte Contemporáneo, El simbolismo en la pintura francesa, October-November 1972, pp. 71-72, no. 98 (titled Eva).
Paris, Grand Palais, Autour de Lévy-Dhurmer, Visionnaires et Intimistes en 1900, March-April 1973, p. 47, no. 64 (illustrated).
Rotterdam, Museum Boymans-Van Beuningen; Brussels, Musées royaux des beaux-arts de Belgique; Baden-Baden, Staatliche Kunsthalle and Paris, Grand Palais, Le Symbolisme en Europe/Het Symbolisme in Europa, November 1975-July 1976, p. 109, no. 93 (illustrated).



Engraved

Lemercier, Paris, c. 1898.
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