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“A VERLAINE”, 1894-1895
Lithograph. Printed in olive green on cream vellum, numbered in the lower left corner
Stains, losses, and short tears at the sheet edges. Traces of adhesive in the corners on the verso. Full margins
27 × 17 cm.
“MUSE DEVANT PARIS”, 1896
Lithograph. Printed in blue on thin vellum, with remarque, signed in pencil and numbered No. I
Minor handling creases. Full margins
65 × 49.9 cm.
Framed: 70 × 88 cm.
“LA VITRIOLEUSE OU LA TASSE DE THE”, 1893
Black chromolithograph, hand-colored with stencil in 6 colors, on heavy cream vellum,
with full margins. Example n. 93/100 of the original edition published in L'Estampe moderne,
Album VI (April–June 1894). Bearing the monogram on the plate, signed and numbered in pencil,
with the editor's blind stamp in the margin
59.4 x 43 cm.
The blind stamp was designed by Alexandre Charpentier
Similar example at the Musée lorrain, Nancy
Another example at the Bibliothèque d'art et d'archéologie Jacques Doucet, Paris
Exhibition
Roger Marx, un critique aux côtés de Gallé, Monet, Rodin, Gauguin…, Nancy, Musée des Beaux-Arts, Musée de l'Ecole de Nancy, May 6 – August 28 2006, ill. p. 299, n. 237
Eugène Grasset, 1845-1917. L'art et l'ornement. Musée cantonal des Beaux-Arts, Lausanne, March 18 – June 13, 2011, n. 91 ill. p. 78
Bibliography
L'Estampe originale, première année, Edition du Journal des Artistes, Paris 1893, Grasset,
ill. p.78 full page color
Anne Murray-Robertson, Grasset – Pionnier de l'Art Nouveau, Bibliothèque des Arts,
Paris, 1981 ill. p. 207
Renate Ulmer, Art Nouveau Symbolismus und Jugendstil in Frankreich, Arnoldsche, 1999,
ill. p. 52, n. 40
“EXPOSITION INTERNATIONALE DE L’EST DE LA FRANCE”, 1909
Poster printed by Berger-Levrault & Co., Nancy
Signed lower right, dedicated and dated 1909 by the artist
95 x 65 cm.
Exhibition
L’Ecole de Nancy, 1889-1909, Art nouveau et industries d’art, Nancy, galeries Poirel, April 24 – July 26 1999, ill. p. 290, n. 31
“L’HOMME QUI COURT APRES LA FORTUNE”, LES FABLES DE LA FONTAINE, 1886,
after Gustave Moreau
Black engraving on Japan paper (crease marks)
Signed G. Moreau, in progress for the proprietors M. and Mme Bounod Valadon and 5ème tirage
27.5 x 21.5 cm.
“LE SONGE D’UN HABITANT DU MOGOL”, LES FABLES DE LA FONTAINE, 1886,
after Gustave Moreau
Black engraving on Japan paper (crease marks)
Signed G. Moreau, in progress for the proprietors M. and Mme Bounod Valadon and 5ème tirage
27.5 x 21.5 cm.
“LA TETE ET LA QUEUE DU SERPENT”, LES FABLES DE LA FONTAINE, 1886,
after Gustave Moreau
Black engraving on Japon paper (crease marks)
Signed G. Moreau, in progress for the proprietors M. and Mme Bounod Valadon and 5ème tirage
28.5 x 19.5 cm.
“LE LION AMOUREUX”, LES FABLES DE LA FONTAINE, 1886, after Gustave Moreau
Black engraving on Japon paper (crease marks)
Signed G. Moreau, In progress for the proprietors M Mme Bounod Valadon and 3ème tirage
26.5 x 19.5 cm.
ALLEGORY OF HEAVEN AND INFERNO
Oil on canvas
Signed
112 x 80 cm.
LA CIRCE, 1906
Watercolor, gouache, black ink and pencil
Signed, dated HOC OPUS NICIENSIS FECIT / GUSTAV ADOLF MOSSA MCMVI lower right
Titled LA CIRCE / Ah combien j’ai bu de boissons faites de larmes de Syrènes, / distillées dans des alambics aussi effroyables que l’enfer
65 x 43 cm.
Exhibition
5ème Exposition des Beaux-Arts de Cannes, Cannes, Hôtel de Ville, 1907
Gustav Adolf Mossa et les symboles, 1883-1971, Nice, galerie des Ponchettes et musée des Beaux-Arts Jules Chéret, 7 July – 31 December 1978, n. 114
Gustav Adolf Mossa, l’oeuvre symboliste, 1903-1918, Paris, pavillon des arts, 19 June – 27 September 1992, Montauban, musée Ingres, 22 October 1992 – 3 January 1993, p. 147, n. 72
Gustav Adolf Mossa, l’oeuvre symboliste, 1903-1918, Thessalonique, Centre culturel Vellidio,
5 January- 4 February 1995, Athènes, Institut français, 13 February – 3 March 1995, n. 28
Gustav Adolf Mossa Symbolistiske Arbejder, 1903-1918, Holte, G. Holtegaard, 4 March – 20 June 1999, p. 37, n. 46
L’œuvre secrète de Gustav Adolf Mossa, Namur, Musée Félicien Rops, 30 January – 16 May 2010,
p. 88
Bibliography
G. de Jarrie, L’Exposition des Beaux-Arts de Cannes, in L’Eclaireue de Nice, 17 January 1907, p.5
Le Bourgeois, L’Exposition des Beaux-Arts de Cannes, in Le Journal des Arts, 19 January 1907, p.3
Jean-Roger Soubiran, Les Aquarelles symbolistes et la création plastique symboliste de Gustav Adolf Mossa, PhD dissertation, Aix-en-Provence University – Marseille, 1978, p. 129-130 and p. 500-501,
n. 106
Jean-Roger Soubiran, Les influences gothiques dans l’art symboliste de Gustav Adolf Mossa, in Nice historique, 1978, n. 2, p. 75
Jean-Roger Soubiran, Gustav Adolf Mossa, 1883-1971, Nice, 1985, pp. 60, 80, 212 et fig. 91 p. 81
Sylvie Lombart, Jean-Roger Soubiran, Gustav Adolf Mossa, Catalogue Raisonné des oeuvres symbolistes, Paris, 2010, p. 184-185, n. A116
Exhibition
Formerly in the collection of France Mossa-Lombart, then by descent
“JEUNE MUSICIENNE ALGERIENNE”, CIRCA 1890
Oil on panel, signed
25 x 34 cm.
“LES LYS ET LA MORT”, CIRCA 1900
Chinese ink and watercolor drawing
Signed lower right and also signed and dedicated left
25 x 17 cm.
“PRAIRIE ET RUISSEAU”
Pastel
Signed lower right
46 x 29.5 cm.
Bibliography
Catalogue raisonné de l’artiste, Brigitte Ranson Bitker, Gilles Genty, Paris, 1999, n. 677, ill. p. 361
“LA GUERRE”, CIRCA 1910
Charcoal, watercolor and gouache
Signed lower right
100 x 95 cm.
Provenance
The artist’s estate
“CLOWNERIE INTIME”
Ink and red pencil on paper
Stamp bottom left M. Pereire
Stamp bottom right JO
12.5 x 9 cm.
With the frame: 32.5 x 27.7 x 2.2 cm.
“LES SATANIQUES”
Pencil and watercolor on paper
11 x 17.2 cm.
With the frame: 30.3 x 36.5 x 1.3 cm.
WATERCOLOR
Watercolor used for the illustration of “Gargantua and Pantagruel” by François Rabelais
Signed bottom right and annotated on the left Livre 1 Chap LV
24 x 18.5 cm.
Stencil enhanced with watercolor
Signed
“VALLEE DE LA MOSELLE, MESSEIN”
Oil on panel
Carved fruit wood frame
Label at the back: Vallée de la Moselle, Société Lorraine des Amis des Arts, Expositon du centenaire 1833 – 1933, désignation: Messein, appartenant à Me Hestaux demeurant à Nancy rue des Tiercelins
21 x 40 cm.
With the frame: 30 x 48 cm.
Exhibition
Louis Hestaux / Collaborateur de Gallé, Musée de l’Ecole de Nancy, 1982, n.127
Metz…Nancy / Nancy…Metz, une histoire de frontière 1861-1909, Metz, musées de la Cour d’Or
18 December 1999 – 12 March 2000, ill. p. 183, n. 200
Provenance
Acquired directly from the artist’s family
“THEODORA, VIERGE ET MARTYRE”, 1892
Oil on panel
Signed, dated and inscribed VILLA MEDICIS Jier 1892 / h. Leriche
Illegible dedication. Inscibed “THEODORA VIRGO
51.2 x 41.5 cm.
“SARAH BERNHARDT DANS LE ROLE DE THEODORA”, 1893
Ink drawing highlighted with blue
Signed, dated 1893 and dedicated A Mr Victor Ullmann / son ami
Victor Ullman was the director of the Sarah Bernhardt theatre
18.5 x 21.5 cm.
“SARAH BERNHARDT DANS LE ROLE DE LA TOSCA POIGNARDANT LE BARON SCARPIA”, 1893
Ink drawing highlighted with blue
Signed, dated 1893 and dedicated A son ami V. Ullmann
Victor Ullman was the director of the Sarah Bernhardt theatre
18.5 x 24.3 cm.
“SARAH BERNHARDT INVOQUANT DIOTIMA”, 1908
Watercolor and pencil on paper
Monogrammed twice and dated 15 juin 1908
Bearing the inscription: Diva Sarah Bernhardt Musa Imperatrix a Diotima
A Diotima tous mes désirs, tous mes devoirs me viennent d’elle
18 x 24 cm.
With the frame: 53 x 47 cm.
Exhibition
Sarah Bernhardt, Espace Cardin, Paris, 31 March-30 May 1976, n. 119, ill. in color p. 43
Sarah Bernhardt, Munich, 1984.
Stars et monstres sacrés, Les dossiers du Musée d’Orsay, Orsay, Paris, 1987, ill. p. 62
Sarah Bernhardt, Musée des Beaux-Arts de Tourcoing, 1987, ill. p. 62
Sarah Bernhardt ou le divin mensonge, Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris, du 3 October-4 February 2001, ill. p. 113
Sarah Bernhardt The Art of high drama, The Jewish Museum, New York, 2 December-2 April 2006,
The Jewish Museum, Amsterdam, ill. p. 98
Sarah Bernhardt Et la femme créa la star, Petit Palais, 14 April-27 August 2023
Bibliography
Le Figaro Patrimoine, 11 May 2001, ill. p. 35
Sarah Bernhardt, The Art of High Drama, Yale University Press, 2005, ill. full color page p. 98
Provenance
Vente Sarah Bernhardt, Paris, 11-13 June 1923, sold 5.100 F.
Collection Michel de Bry
Vente Sarah Bernhardt et son époque, Maîtres Chayette & Cheval, Camard expert, 23 April 1997, lot 154
Collection Daniel Ladeuille.
Vente La Belle Epoque de Sarah Bernhardt, Théâtre de la Renaissance, Paris, Maître Binoche, lot 38
“JEUNE FEMME PENSIVE” or “FEMME AU TURBAN”, 1910
Charcoal and sanguine
Dedicaced to Mr. Hennion, signed and dated 1910
46.2 x 32 cm.
