PINKNEY MARCIUS-SIMONS – ALLEGORY OF HEAVEN AND INFERNO
ALLEGORY OF HEAVEN AND INFERNO
Oil on canvas
Signed
112 x 80 cm.
LOUIS-AUGUSTE THEODORE-RIVIERE – “JEUNE MUSICIENNE ALGERIENNE”, CIRCA 1890
“JEUNE MUSICIENNE ALGERIENNE”, CIRCA 1890
Oil on panel, signed
25 x 34 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
HENRI LERICHE – “THEODORA, VIERGE ET MARTYRE”, 1892
“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.
THEOPHILE ALEXANDRE STEINLEN – “RUE DE VILLAGE EN BRETAGNE, LA NUIT”, CIRCA 1900
“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
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
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.
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.
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”.
MAURICE CHABAS – “L’APPARITION”
“L’APPARITION”
Oil on canvas
Signed lower right
55 x 46 cm.