Lot 131
  • 131

Édouard Manet

Estimate
60,000 - 80,000 USD
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Description

  • Édouard Manet
  • Églantines
  • Signed E. Manet (lower left)
  • Watercolor on paper
  • 7 7/8 by 4 7/8 in.
  • 20 by 12.4 cm

Provenance

Dr. O. Wertheimer, Paris
Acquired from the above in 1954

Exhibited

New York, Wildenstein & Co., Magic of Flowers in Painting, 1954, no. 37
Philadelphia, Philadelphia Museum of Art & Chicago, The Art Institute of Chicago, Édouard Manet, 1832-1883, 1966-67, no. 190, illustrated in the catalogue
Martigny, Switzerland, Fondation Pierre Gianadda, Manet, 1996, no. 66, illustrated in color in the catalogue
Paris, Musée d'Orsay & Baltimore, Walters Art Gallery, Manet: The Still-Life Paintings, 2000-01, no. 64, illustrated in color in the catalogue

Literature

Allen Staley, "The American Connoisseur: Further Acquaintance with Manet at Philadelphia's Museum of Art," in The Connoisseur, CLXIII, December 1966, illustrated p. 272
Alain de Leiris, The Drawings of Édouard Manet, Berkeley & Los Angeles, 1969, no. 529, illustrated fig. 395
Denis Rouart & Daniel Wildenstein, Édouard Manet, Catalogue raisonné, vol. II, Lausanne & Paris, 1975, no. 662, illustrated p. 233

Condition

Executed on cream colored laid paper. The sheet is hinged to the edges of its verso. The left edge is slightly deckled. There is some very faint and scattered staining bleeding through the verso as well as weak foxing to the sheet, predominantly visible to the flower's stem at center left and lower left. Otherwise this work is in good condition
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