“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
“LA COUPE ET LES LEVRES”, CIRCA 1900
After a poem of Alfred de Musset
Oil on canvas, signed and located Paris
Titled “La Coupe et les lèvres Belcolore : Moine, la bière est vide. Franck : Alors c’est que Franck est vivant (se démasquant): Va-t-en, prostituée…..” Alfred de Musset
“VIEUX MONSIEUR DECORE, JEUNE FEMME DEBRAILLEE”, CIRCA 1900
Lithograph on vellum
Signed with the initials of the artist and dedicated A mon ami John N… chaleureusement d.F
25.5 x 18.5 cm.
Bibliography Ian Millman, Georges de Feure, Maître du symbolisme et de l’Art Nouveau, ACR édition, Courbevoie (Paris), 1992, ill. p. 22
“DREAMS”, BEFORE 1910
Watercolour and indian ink on paper
Signed
34.5 x 23.5 cm.
This is the watercolour that was used to illustrate Charles Baudelaire’s famous book Les Fleurs du Mal by Rochegrosse
It represents the poet Baudelaire and his inspiration
“SUZANNE ET LES VIEILLARDS” TRIPTYCH, 1906
Watercolor, ink, gouache and pencil on paper
Signed, inscribed and dated lower center: GUSTAV ADOLF MOSSA NICIENSIS PINXIT MCMVI and titled below the central panel SUZANNE ET LES VIEILLARDS
36.7 x 56 cm.
Exhibition Exposition d’œuvres d’Alexis et de Gustav Adolf Mossa, L’Artistique, Nice, 1909, n. 92 Exposition d’œuvres de G.A. Mossa, Galerie George Petit, Paris, 1911, n. 21
Bibliography Un Domino, Le Gaulois, Echos de partout, 5 April 1911
Léon Riotor, Le Radical, Echos, 11 April 1911
Gustav Adolf Mossa, catalogue raisonné des œuvres “symbolistes”, Somogy éditions d’art, 2010, n. A154, ill. p. 221
