SARAH BERNHARDT (1844-1923)

Lot 20
07.02.2025 10:00UTC -05:00
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AuctioneerCHRISTIE'S
Event locationUSA, New York
ID 1357919
Lot 20 | SARAH BERNHARDT (1844-1923)
Estimate value
$ 80 000 – 120 000
SARAH BERNHARDT (1844-1923)
Le Chant (Allegory of Song)
signed ‘Sarah Bernhardt’ (to right side of base)
marble
22 ¾ in. (57.8 cm.) high




Provenance

From an apartment in the 16th arrondissement of Paris, decorated by Jean Cocteau (1889-1963) circa 1950;
thence by descent to the current owner, Paris.



Literature

A Smith Monaco and Monte Carlo, Philadelphia, 1912, pp. 319-320.
Revue britannique ou Choix d'articles traduits des meilleurs écrits périodiques de la Grande-Bretagne, 1879, volume 319, p. 630.
« L’Opéra de Monte-Carlo, aux temps du Prince Albert Ier de Monaco », in Les dossiers du Musée d’Orsay n°38, Paris, 1990, p. 8.
Bulletin de la Société de l'histoire de l'art français, 1992, p. 226.
Sarah Bernhardt, Ma double vie, Paris, 1907, pp. 329 et 336.
Sarah Bernhardt. Et la femme créa la star, cat. expo., Petit Palais, Paris, Paris Musées/Petit Palais Musée des Beaux-arts de la Ville de Paris, 2023.
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