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Property of an Important Private Collector
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February 20, 02:32 PM GMT
Estimate
50,000 - 70,000 GBP
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Property of an Important Private Collector
MARCEL MEYS
Mid-Nineteenth Century
NEREID
signed and dated Marcel Meys / 1882 lower right
oil on canvas
painting: 215 by 110cm., 84½ by 43in.
framed: 240 by 135cm., 94½ by 53in.
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Sale: Tajan, Paris, 1 March 1990, lot 178
Sale: Christie's, London, 26 June 2007, lot 189
Purchased at the above sale by the present owner
Paris, Salon, 1882, no. 1877 (as Néréis)
Marcel Paul Meys's oeuvre was highly influenced by that of Alexandre Cabanel, one of the leading academic artists of the Nineteenth Century, whose masterpiece La naissance de Vénus (Musée d'Orsay, Paris) is surely echoed in the present work.
Meys made his debut at the Parisian salon in 1880 where he continued to exhibit until 1901.