CHARLES MAURIN – “FEMME A L’ENFANT AU MIROIR”
“FEMME A L’ENFANT AU MIROIR”
Charcoal and pastel on paper
Signed lower right
62 x 48 cm.
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VICTOR MOULINET – “L’ETOILE DES INCONNUS”, CIRCA 1900
“L’ETOILE DES INCONNUS”, CIRCA 1900
Indian ink and color. Signed lower left and marked:
X, Etoile des inconnus ! jambes et bras ouverts, tout nus. Croix charnelle ou l’homme s’immole
26.5 x 19.3 cm.
LOUIS HESTAUX – “LA MOSELLE”, CIRCA 1900
“LA MOSELLE”, CIRCA 1900
Watercolor and carved frame
Signed lower right
20.5 x 32 cm.
MAURICE CHABAS – WATERCOLOR AND INK
WATERCOLOR AND INK
Signed and titled lower right CORPS DE LUMIERE, REVETANT DES AMES PURES, HARMONIES CELESTES, MAURICE CHABAS
51 x 36 cm.
JEAN-MARC REISER – “QU’EST-CE QUE JE M’EMMERDE”
“QU’EST-CE QUE JE M’EMMERDE”
Drawing
Signed
PINKNEY MARCIUS-SIMONS – “LA VISION DU DEMON”, CIRCA 1900
“LA VISION DU DEMON”, CIRCA 1900
Oil on panel
Signed lower left
34.5 x 26.5 cm.
ISABELLE DE STEIGER – PRESUMED PORTRAIT OF PETROVNA BLAVATSKA, 1887
PRESUMED PORTRAIT OF PETROVNA BLAVATSKA, 1887
Oil on canvas (relined)
Signed, dated 1887 lower right
54 x 43 cm.
ARMAND POINT – “LA FEMME A LA FLEUR”, CIRCA 1900
“LA FEMME A LA FLEUR”, CIRCA 1900
Oil on panel
Bears a shipping label at the back evidencing a loan from Miss Morere, Paris
24.5 x 19 cm.
MAXWELL ASHBY ARMFIELD – TEMPERA ON WOOD “OEDIPE ET LE SPHINX”, CIRCA 1910
TEMPERA ON WOOD “OEDIPE ET LE SPHINX”, CIRCA 1910
After an ink drawing by Charles Ricketts, R.A titled “Oedipe et le Sphinx”
34 x 24 cm.
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
CHARLES MAURIN – “LA TOILETTE”
“LA TOILETTE”
Charcoal drawing
Signed lower left
60 x 45 cm.
THEOPHILE ALEXANDRE STEINLEN – “LES TROIS CHATS”, 1915
“LES TROIS CHATS”, 1915
Charcoal, black pencil, watercolor
GUSTAV ADOLF MOSSA – “OTHELLO ET DESDEMONE” ACTE III”, 1911
“OTHELLO ET DESDEMONE” ACTE III”, 1911
Watercolor
Signed, located Niciensis pinxit and dated 1911
45 x 27 cm.
ALPHONSE GERMAIN-THILL – “YOUNG BEAUTY WEARING ART NOUVEAU JEWELS”, 1904
“YOUNG BEAUTY WEARING ART NOUVEAU JEWELS”, 1904
Oil on board lined with canvas
Signed lower left and dated (19)04
50 x 36 cm.
GEORGES ROCHEGROSSE – “LA MORT”, BEFORE 1910
“LA MORT”, BEFORE 1910
Watercolour
This is the watercolour that was used to illustrate Charles Baudelaire’s famous book Les Fleurs du Mal, engraved by Eugène Decisy and titled La Mort
FRANCISCO JAVIER GOSE – “LA CONVOITISE”, CIRCA 1900
“LA CONVOITISE”, CIRCA 1900
Gouache and coloured crayons
Signed and titled
32 x 24 cm.
LEONARD SARLUIS – A SYMBOLIST SCENE, CIRCA 1910
A SYMBOLIST SCENE, CIRCA 1910
Ink, pencil, sanguine, gold highlights, varnish on paper
26.5 x 17.7 cm.
FRANCOIS MARIUS VALERE-BERNARD – “LE VICE”, CIRCA 1900
“LE VICE”, CIRCA 1900
Pencil on paper
Signed
22 x 47 cm.
PINKNEY MARCIUS-SIMONS – “LE GRAAL”, CIRCA 1900
“LE GRAAL”, CIRCA 1900
Oil on panel
Signed lower left
115 x 144 cm.
PINKNEY MARCIUS-SIMONS – “L’APPARITION DU GRAAL A PERCEVAL”
“L’APPARITION DU GRAAL A PERCEVAL”
Oil on panel
Signed
72 x 67 cm.
This painting depicts the moment in Richard Wagner’s opera Parsifal when “The light radiates,
the Graal sets itself ablaze and a dove comes down from the dome above Parsifal.
He refuses to kiss Kundry whom remorseful falls and dies”.
LOUIS WELDEN HAWKINS – “PORTRAIT OF A MODERN WOMAN”, CIRCA 1900
“PORTRAIT OF A MODERN WOMAN”, CIRCA 1900
Oil on canvas
Original carved wood frame
73 x 60 cm.
JEAN COCTEAU – TWO LITHOGRAPHIC POSTERS FOR THE BALLETS RUSSES AT THE MONTE-CARLO THEATER, EVENING OF 19th APRIL 1911
TWO LITHOGRAPHIC POSTERS FOR THE BALLETS RUSSES AT THE MONTE-CARLO THEATER, EVENING OF 19th APRIL 1911
The first poster represents the dancer Vaslav Nijinsky, dressed in a suit designed by Leon Bakst
for The Specter of the Rose
Signed
91 x 57 cm.
The second poster represents the dancer Tamara Karsavina
Signed
90 x 56.5 cm.
RENE LEVERD – “HERETIQUE SUR LE BUCHER”, CIRCA 1900
“HERETIQUE SUR LE BUCHER”, CIRCA 1900
Watercolor
Signed lower left
48 x 32 cm.
GUSTAV ADOLF MOSSA – “JERUSALEM”, 1907
“JERUSALEM”, 1907
Watercolor, ink on paper
Signed, dated 1907 and titled GUSTAV ADOLF MOSSA NICIENSIS HOC OPUS PINSIT MCMVII lower left
and JERUSALEM lower right
51 x 32 cm.
Bibliography
A preparatory drawing of this work is illustrated in: Roger Soubiran, Gustav Adolf Mossa 1883-1971, Nice 1985
Gustav Adolf Mossa, catalogue des oeuvres symbolistes, Somogy éditions d’art, 2010, ill. p. 249
Provenance
Drouot, Paris, 8 April 1986
Private collection, USA