Lot 61
  • 61

Félicien Rops

Estimate
12,000 - 18,000 GBP
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Description

  • Félicien Rops
  • A un dîner d'athées
  • signed and inscribed F. Rops / 1er dessin lower left; titled upper left
  • pencil and pastel on paper
  • 25 by 17cm., 9¾ by 6¾in. (image size); 30.5 by 22cm., 12 by 8¾in.(sheet)

Provenance

Maurice Pereire, Paris (stamped with his monogram collector's stamp lower left)
Jacques Odry, Brussels (by 1972; stamped with the JO collector's stamp lower left)
Carlo de Poortere (by 1980)
Galerie Patrick Derom, Brussels
Purchased from the above by the present owner in 1999

Exhibited

Brussels, Les XX, 1889
Ixelles, Musée des Beaux-Arts, Félicien Rops, 1969, no. 150, illustrated in the catalogue
Namur, Félicien Rops, 1971
Ostend, Opera prohibita, Félicien Rops, 1971
Paris, Galeries Nationales du Grand Palais, Peintres de l'imaginaire. Symbolistes et surréalistes belges, 1972
Knokke, Casino, Le Symbolisme en Belgique, 1974
New York, The New York Cultural Centre; Houston, Museum of Fine Arts; Painters of the mind's eye: Belgian symbolists and surrealists, 1974, illustrated in the catalogue
Paris, Galeries Nationales du Grand Palais; Rotterdam, Museum Boymans-van Beuningen; Baden-Baden, Staatliche Kunsthalle; Le Symbolisme en Europe, 1975-76, no. 197c, illustrated in the catalogue
Brooklyn, The Brooklyn Museum, Belgian Art: 1880-1914, 1980, no. 81, illustrated in the catalogue
Antwerp, Koninklijk Museum voor Schone Kunsten, Aspecten van het symbolisme. Tekeningen en pastels, 1985, no. 4
Brussels, Cetre culturel de la Communauté française Wallonie-Bruxelles "Le Botanique" & Musées royaux des Beaux-Arts de Belgique; Paris, Musée des Arts Décoratifs; Nice, Musée des Beaux-Arts Jules Chéret, Félicien Rops, 1985, no. 175, illustrated in the catalogue
Gent, Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst, Open Mind, 1989
Namur, Maison de la Culture, Rops suis, aultre ne veulx estre, 1998, no. 161, illustrated in the catalogue

Literature

Robert Delevoy, Guy Cuvelier, et al., Félicien Rops, Brussels, 1985, p. 197, illustrated

Condition

The sheet has been laid down onto a backing card, which is in turn hinged to the mat. The work is in good and fresh condition and ready to hang. Presented framed and glazed.
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Catalogue Note

Executed in 1879.