Lot 116
  • 116

BERTHE MORISOT | Les Poires

Estimate
30,000 - 50,000 USD
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Description

  • Berthe Morisot
  • Les Poires
  • Stamped Berthe Morisot (lower left)
  • Pastel on paper
  • 16 3/4 by 19 3/8 in.
  • 42.5 by 49.2 cm
  • Executed in Mézy in 1891.

Provenance

Pierre Messiqua, Geneva (and sold: Sotheby's, New York, October 18, 1984, lot 14)
Private Collection, France (acquired at the above sale)
Galerie Hopkins-Thomas-Custot, Paris (acquired by 1987)
Acquired from the above on November 14, 2000

Exhibited

Paris, Galerie Durand-Ruel, Madame Eugène Manet, Exposition de son oeuvre, 1896, no. 213
Paris, Galerie Hopkins-Thomas-Custot, Berthe Morisot, 1987, no. 45, illustrated in color in the catalogue
Washington, D.C., National Gallery of Art; Fort Worth, Kimbell Art Museum & South Hadley, Massachusetts, Mount Holyoke College Art Museum, Berthe Morisot Impressionist, 1987-1988, no. 87, illustrated in color in the catalogue
Memphis, Memphis Brooks Museum of Art, Affinities: Works on Paper from the 16th-20th centuries, 1989, no. 12, illustrated in color in the catalogue
Laren, The Netherlands, Singer Museum, De Impressionistische wereld van Julie Manet, 1990, n.n.
London, JPL Fine Arts, Berthe Morisot, 1990-91, no. 27, illustrated in color in the catalogue
Frankfurt, Schirn Kunsthalle & San Francisco, Legion of Honor, Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco, Women Impressionists: Berthe Morisot, Mary Cassatt, Eva Gonzalès, Marie Bracquemond, 2008 

Literature

Marie-Louise Bataille & Georges Wildenstein, Berthe Morisot, Catalogue raisonné des peintures, pastels et aquarelles, Paris, 1961, no. 577, illustrated fig. 565
Charles F. Stuckey & William P. Scott, Berthe Morisot, Impressionist, London, 1987, illustrated pl. 87

Condition

The work is in very good condition. Executed on pink colored laid paper. The edges have been reinforced with paper along all four edges. There is evidence of four repaired tears, two along the bottom edge and two along the right edge. The medium is bright and well-preserved. The sheet is slightly discolored towards the edges. The edges are unevenly cut.
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