Gustave Moreau
Première Danseuse: Mademoiselle Subra, Ballet de Sapho , 1883 (Executed)
Lot #228 |
2025-02-05 |
Sotheby's, New York
19th-Century European Art
Category:
Works on Paper
Estimate:
USD 10,000 - 15,000 (currency of sale)
Price Sold:
Auction Details
Auction house: Sotheby's
Auction number: N11703
Auction name: 19th-Century European Art
Auction type: Fine Art
Location: New York
Start date: 2025-02-05
Currency: USD
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Lot Description
Details
Genre: 19th Century French Art
Department: Painting & Works on Paper
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Dimensions: 8 ¼ by 6 in.
Item measurements:
Height In Centimeters:
21
Width In Centimeters:
15.2
Height In Inches:
8.25
Width In Inches:
6
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Year notes: Executed in 1883.
Provenance
Sale, Paris, Hôtel Drouot, 18 May 1910; Private Collection, France; By whom sold, Sotheby's, London, 12 November 2008, lot 255; Where acquired by the present owner.
Literature
P-L Mathieu, Gustave Moreau: sa vie, son oeuvre , Paris 1976, p. 344, no. 316. P-L Mathieu, Gustave Moreau. Monographie et nouveau catalogue de l'oeuvre achevé, Paris 1998, p. 387, no. 351, illustrated. Catalogue note One of the most inventive painters of his generation, Gustave Moreau’s oeuvre encompasses a wide variety of mediums and pictorial traditions. Executed in 1883, the present drawing relates to a group of exotic costume designs for the famed ballerina, Mademoiselle Subra, for her performance as premiere danseuse in the 1884 revival of Charles Gounod’s opera Sapho.
Catalog summary
Gustave Moreau French 1826 - 1898 Première Danseuse: Mademoiselle Subra, Ballet de Sapho signed lower right: Gustave Moreau (lower right); inscribed Melle Subra 1ère Danseuse / ballet de Sapho (lower left), -ors, violets et verts (lower right), ailes blanches ou / vertes ou/ gris tourterelle / (on supprimera les ailes ) (center right) graphite on paper image: 8 ¼ by 6 in.; 21 by 15.2 cm (sight) framed: 19 ¼ by 15 ⅜ in.; 48.9 by 39.1 cm Provenance Sale, Paris, Hôtel Drouot, 18 May 1910; Private Collection, France; By whom sold, Sotheby's, London, 12 November 2008, lot 255; Where acquired by the present owner. Literature P-L Mathieu, Gustave Moreau: sa vie, son oeuvre , Paris 1976, p. 344, no. 316. P-L Mathieu, Gustave Moreau. Monographie et nouveau catalogue de l'oeuvre achevé, Paris 1998, p. 387, no. 351, illustrated. Catalogue note One of the most inventive painters of his generation, Gustave Moreau’s oeuvre encompasses a wide variety of mediums and pictorial traditions. Executed in 1883, the present drawing relates to a group of exotic costume designs for the famed ballerina, Mademoiselle Subra, for her performance as premiere danseuse in the 1884 revival of Charles Gounod’s opera Sapho.