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JAN FRANS DE BOEVER – “LES LIANES”, CIRCA 1900

“LES LIANES”, CIRCA 1900
Oil on panel
Signed
29 x 17 cm.

De Boever started to paint at the same time as he started to read and write.
A true bohemian and a romantic aesthete he was an avid reader of Tolstoï, Baudelaire,
Huysmans and the Belgian symbolist authors. Sent by his father to a “maison close” to
initiate him to the pleasures of the flesh, he catches a venereal disease which will haunt him
for the rest of his life. He soon discovers the incarnation of evil which is secretly growing in
him and the fatal and diabolical signs of seduction. His work is impregnated with a desire of revenge,
violence and flagellation. In his perspective the woman is guilty of all evils. He sees her as a virgin
and a prostitute, an idol and a slut, blood thirsty, the Devil’s servant and sister of Death.

LOUIS ICART – WATERCOLOR

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.

LOUIS HESTAUX – “VALLEE DE LA MOSELLE, MESSEIN”

“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

WALTER SPINDLER – “SARAH BERNHARDT INVOQUANT DIOTIMA”, 1908

“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

VICTOR PROUVE – “PORTRAIT DE MLLE PAUL”, 1891

“PORTRAIT DE MLLE PAUL”, 1891
Pastel on wood panel
Signed and dated 1891
The frame in “bois de Sainte-Lucie” (prunus mahaleb)
With the frame: 193 x 135 cm.

Exhibition
Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts, 1892, n. 1331

Bibliography
Chantal Humbert, Les Arts Décoratifs en Lorraine de la fin du XVIIème siècle à l’ère industrielle,
les éditions de l’amateur
, ill. p. 136

MANUEL ORAZI – LA MAISON MODERNE – RARE LITHOGRAPH “FEMME AUX ORCHIDEES”, CIRCA 1902-1904

RARE LITHOGRAPH “FEMME AUX ORCHIDEES”, CIRCA 1902-1904
Colour lithograph
Signed, with the artist’s circular seal adapted from a Japanese motif
46 x 61.5 cm.

Bibliography
Victor Arwas, Art Nouveau: The French Aesthetic, Andreas Papadakis Publisher, London, 2002, ill. p. 197-198

Manuel Orazi designed important Art Nouveau posters for La Maison Moderne, as well as for Sarah Bernhardt, the 1900 Exposition Universelle, Loïe Fuller, and the Palais de la Danse. His works in oils, gouache and watercolours were exhibited
at the Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts from 1897. He also supplied illustrations for periodicals and for books. As the principal artist working for La Maison Moderne, besides a poster, he created objets d’art and jewellery