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Gari Melchers

Sainte Gudule

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November 22, 10:23 PM GMT

Estimate

100,000 - 150,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Gari Melchers

1860 - 1932

Sainte Gudule


signed Gari Melchers. (upper left)

oil and gold leaf on canvas

canvas: 56 ¼ by 28 ¾ inches (142.9 by 73 cm)

framed: 65 ⅜ by 38 ⅜ inches (166 by 97.5 cm)

Painted circa 1897.

The artist
Private collection, Essen, Germany, 1900 (acquired from the above)
By descent to the present owner
Octave Maus, "Le Salon de Gand: Les peintres étrangers," L'Art Moderne, vol. 19, no. 41, October 8, 1899, p. 355
J. Brenchley, "Gari Melchers and His Work," The Magazine of Art, 1900, p. 148
Diane Lesko and Esther Persson, Gari Melchers, A Retrospective Exhibition, St. Petersburg, Russia, 1990, pp. 92-93, 95-96, no. 25, illustrated
Munich, Germany, Munich Artists' Association, Seventh International Exhibition, June-October 1897
Ghent, Belgium, Casino Ghent, City of Ghent XXXVIIth Exhibition; Salon of 1899, 1899, no. 25
Berlin, Germany, Große Berliner Kunst-Ausstellung (Great Berlin Art Exhibition), May-September 1900
Chicago, Illinois, Art Institute of Chicago, Fourteenth Annual Exhibition of Oil Paintings and Sculpture by American Artists, October-December 1901
Berlin, Germany, Berlin Royal Academy of Art, International Members Exhibition, January-March 1907
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Carnegie Institute, Eleventh Annual Exhibition, April-June 1907, no. 303, p. 204