PROPERTY OF A GENTLEMAN
GUSTAV ADOLF MOSSA | Resurrection
Auction Closed
July 9, 02:03 PM GMT
Estimate
10,000 - 15,000 GBP
Lot Details
Description
Property of a Gentleman
GUSTAV ADOLF MOSSA
French
1883-1971
Resurrection
signed GUSTAV.ADOLF.MOSSA. / NICIENSIS. PINSIT. MCMVII. lower right and titled RESURRECTION lower left
watercolour, pen and ink and gouache over pencil on paper
sheet: 62 by 47cm., 24¼ by 18½in.
Private collection, Tel Aviv (by 1978)
Sale: Sotheby's, London, 12 June 1996, lot 153
Private collection, USA (sale: Sotheby's, London, 18 November 2003, lot 376)
Purchased at the above sale by the present owner
Nice, Musée Jules Chéret, Alexis et Gustav Adolf Mossa, peintres niçois, 1974, no. 131
Nice, Galerie des Ponchettes, Gustav-Adolf Mossa (1883-1971) et les symboles, 1978, no. 154, illustrated in the catalogue
Yokohama, Galerie Motomachi, Gustave Adolf Mossa, 1989, no. 12, illustrated in the catalogue
Paris, Pavillon des Arts, G. A. Mossa: L'Oeuvre symboliste 1903-1918, 1992, no. 101, illustrated in the catalogue
Jean-Roger Soubiran, 'L'évolution de la technique dans les acquarelles symbolistes de Gustave Adolphe Mossa', in Nice Historique, no. 1, 1976, p. 45
Jean-Roger Soubiran, Les acquarelles symbolistes et la creation plastique symboliste de Gustav Adolf Mossa, ph.D. thesis, Provence, 1978, no. 183
Jean-Roger Soubiran, Gustav Adolf Mossa: 1883-1971, Nice, 1985, p. 183, no. 252, illustrated