Lot 400
  • 400

Berthe Morisot

Estimate
30,000 - 40,000 USD
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Description

  • Paysage
  • Signed Berthe Morisot (lower left)
  • Watercolor on paper
  • 5 3/4 by 8 7/8 in.
  • 14.5 by 22.7 cm

Provenance

Alexis Rouart Collection, Paris
Arthur Sachs Collection, Paris
Private Collection, Paris (by descent from the above)

Exhibited

Paris, Galerie Durand-Ruel, Berthe Morisot: Madame Eugène Manet, Exposition de son oeuvre, 1896, no. 391
Albi, Musée Toulouse-Lautrec, Berthe Morisot: Peintures, aquarelles, dessins, 1958, no. 64
Paris, Musée Jacquemart-André, Berthe Morisot, 1961, n.n. (titled Femme dans l'herbe)

Literature

Marie-Louise Bataille & Georges Wildenstein, Berthe Morisot, Catalogue des peintures, pastels et aquarelles, Paris, 1961, no. 613, illustrated fig. 600

Condition

This work is in excellent condition. Executed on cream wove paper. Sheet is affixed to a mat along the right edge on the verso. There is a small possible repaired tear at the top edge near upper right corner, otherwise fine.
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