Art Nouveau & Art Déco - Gallery in Monaco
“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.
“NECKLACE WITH PENDANT”, CIRCA 1900
Chinese ink, gouache and watercolor
28 x 22 cm.
“RUE DE VILLAGE EN BRETAGNE, LA NUIT”, CIRCA 1900
Oil on canvas
Signed lower left
16 x 22 cm.
Steinlen has executed a variant in aquatint with the same scene, without the figures and in full day light
“PORTRAIT DE MARIE PROUVE”
Etching and aquatint
43.5 x 29 cm.
59 x 46 cm. (with the frame)
Exhibition
Victor Prouvé 1858-1945, musée des Beaux-Arts, Nancy, 17 May-21 September 2008, ill. p. 156, n. 50 in the exhibition catalogue
Victor Prouvé, le Maître de l’art Nouveau à Issy, Musée Français de la carte à jouer, Issy-les-Moulineaux, 11 May-14 August 2022
OIL ON CANVAS
Signed and titled A Lucien Perot en souvenir d’un verrier qui était peintre / Pxit 1945
61.3 x 50.5 cm.
“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
“FEMME A L’ENFANT AU MIROIR”
Charcoal and pastel on paper
Signed lower right
62 x 48 cm.
“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.
“LA MOSELLE”, CIRCA 1900
Watercolor and carved frame
Signed lower right
20.5 x 32 cm.
WATERCOLOR AND INK
Signed and titled lower right CORPS DE LUMIERE, REVETANT DES AMES PURES, HARMONIES CELESTES, MAURICE CHABAS
51 x 36 cm.
“QU’EST-CE QUE JE M’EMMERDE”
Drawing
Signed
“LA VISION DU DEMON”, CIRCA 1900
Oil on panel
Signed lower left
34.5 x 26.5 cm.
“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.
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.
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
“LA TOILETTE”
Charcoal drawing
Signed lower left
60 x 45 cm.
“LES TROIS CHATS”, 1915
Charcoal, black pencil, watercolor
“YOUNG BEAUTY WEARING ART NOUVEAU JEWELS”, 1904
Oil on board lined with canvas
Signed lower left and dated (19)04
50 x 36 cm.
“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
“LA CONVOITISE”, CIRCA 1900
Gouache and coloured crayons
Signed and titled
32 x 24 cm.
A SYMBOLIST SCENE, CIRCA 1910
Ink, pencil, sanguine, gold highlights, varnish on paper
26.5 x 17.7 cm.
“LE GRAAL”, CIRCA 1900
Oil on panel
Signed lower left
115 x 144 cm.
“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”.
“HERETIQUE SUR LE BUCHER”, CIRCA 1900
Watercolor
Signed lower left
48 x 32 cm.
“L’APPARITION”
Oil on canvas
Signed lower right
55 x 46 cm.
“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
“LA VIGNE”, 1896
Oil on canvas
Signed
92 x 73 cm.
Bibliography
Jean-Roger Soubiran, Valère Bernard, édition Jeanne Laffitte, 1988, ill. p. 136, n. 115
“FETE FLEURIE”, CIRCA 1900
Gouache and watercolor
41 x 29 cm.
“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
Gustave-Adolphe Mossa. Niciensis Pinxit, Musée des Beaux-Arts Jules Chéret, France, 29 January – 15 May 2022
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
PORTRAIT OF SARAH BERNHARDT AT BELLE-ILE-SUR-MER, CIRCA 1900
Watercolor and gouache on paper
Signed
36 x 22 cm.
“BRUNNHILD”, CIRCA 1900
Watercolor
Signed
28 x 20 cm.
“LA PRIERE AU CREPUSCULE”, CIRCA 1890
In tribute to Jean-François Millet
Pastel on paper
Signed lower right
77 x 56
With the frame: 114 x 96 cm.
