Berthe Morisot

Nu couché

Auction Closed

March 3, 05:01 PM GMT

Estimate

30,000 - 40,000 GBP

Lot Details

Description

Property from an Historic British Collection

Berthe Morisot

1841 - 1895

Nu couché

stamped faintly Berthe Morisot (lower left)

pastel on paper

47.5 by 62.7cm., 18¾ by 24⅞in.

Framed: 66.2 by 81cm., 26⅛ by 31⅞in.

Executed in Mézy in 1891.

Madame Ernest Rouart, Paris (the artist's daughter)
Private Collection, USA (sold: Sotheby's, New York, 14th May 1992, lot 106)
Purchased at the above sale by the present owner

Marie-Louis Bataille & Georges Wildenstein, Berthe Morisot, Catalogue des peintures, pastels et aquarelles, Paris, 1961, no. 578, illustrated fig. 558