Modern & Contemporary Evening Auction

Modern & Contemporary Evening Auction

Property from a Private American Collection

Émile Bernard

Femme assise sur un canapé rose

Auction Closed

March 4, 08:29 PM GMT

Estimate

400,000 - 600,000 GBP

Lot Details

Description

Émile Bernard

1868 - 1941


Femme assise sur un canapé rose

oil on canvas

31.8 by 39.9 cm. 12½ by 15¾ in.

Executed circa 1887.


Béatrice Recchi Altarriba has kindly confirmed the authenticity of this work.

Gabriel-Albert Aurier, Paris (acquired before 1892)

Private Collection, France (acquired by descent from the above)

Cornette de Saint-Cyr, Paris, 10 December 2016, lot 18 (consigned by the above)

Sotheby’s, New York, 16 May 2017, lot 25

Acquired from the above by the present owner

Jean-Jacques Luthi and Armand Israël, Émile Bernard—sa vieson œuvrecatalogue raisonné, Paris, 2014, no. 82, p. 149, illustrated in colour 

Mannheim, Städtische Kunsthalle Mannheim and Amsterdam, Van Gogh Museum, Émile Bernard1868-1941A Pioneer of Modern Art, 1990, no. 40, illustrated in colour (dated late 1887-early 1888)

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