19th-Century European Art

19th-Century European Art

Property from a West Coast Private Collection

Henri Gervex

After the Ball (Retour du Bal)

Auction Closed

February 5, 09:31 PM GMT

Estimate

50,000 - 60,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Property from a West Coast Private Collection


Henri Gervex 

French 1852 - 1929

After the Ball (Retour du Bal)


signed lower left: H. Gervex

oil on canvas 

canvas: 25 ½ by 32 in.; 64.8 by 81.3 cm

framed: 33 by 39 ½ in.; 83.8 by 100.3 cm

With Victor Galleries;

By whom sold, Sotheby's, New York, 13 February 1985, lot 103;

Where acquired by Master Paintings Inc.;

From whom acquired by the present owner.

E. Zola "Lettres de Paris: Nouvelles Artistiques et Littéraires, Le Salon de 1879," Écrits sur l'art, Paris 1879, pp. 401-402.

Nana: Myth and Reality; Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg 1973, p. 5, no. XIX/4, illustrated.

J.C. Pralong-Gourvennec, Henri Gervex: 1852-1929, exhibition catalogue, Galerie de Beaux-Arts, Bordeaux; Musée Carnavalet, Paris; Musée des Beaux-Arts, Nice; 1992-1993, Bordeaux; Paris; Nice 1992, p. 100, illustrated.

R. Thomson, Edgar Degas: Waiting, J. Paul Getty Museum, Santa Monica 1995, p. 76, fig. 50 (as The Return from the Ball).


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