Lot 110
  • 110

Édouard Manet

Estimate
40,000 - 60,000 EUR
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Description

  • Édouard Manet
  • Plainte moresque
  • stamped E.M. (lower left)
  • ink, wash and pencil on paper
  • 14 x 10 1/2 in.

Provenance

Mme Manet (widow of the artist)
Sale: Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 4-5 February 1884, lot 149
Sale: Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 10 June 1964, lot 151

Literature

Fernand Lochard, Reproductions d'œuvres d'Édouard Manet, Paris, 1883-84, illustrated no. 185
Edmond Bazire, Manet, Paris, 1884, illustrated p. 73
Adolphe Tabarant, Manet et ses œuvres, Paris, 1947, no. 566, illustrated p. 56
Merete Bodelsen, 'Early Impressionist Sales, 1874-1894', in Burlington Magazine; London, June 1968, no. 149, p. 343
Alain de Leiris, The Drawings of Edouard Manet, Berkeley, 1969, no. 169, p. 58
Denis Rouart & Daniel Wildenstein, Edouard Manet Catalogue raisonné, vol. II, Paris, 1975, no. 457, illustrated p. 167

Condition

Executed on cream laid paper, not laid down, affixed to the overmount along the extreme edges. There is some light staining predominately along the extreme edges. There are a few nicks along the upper edge. There are some minor handling marks and a few scattered media marks in places. There are some light spots of foxing in the background. The sheet is slightly undulating. This work is in overall good original condition.
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