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Property from a Japanese Private Collection

Gustave Moreau

Salomé carrying the head of Saint John

Estimate

150,000 - 200,000 GBP

Lot Details

Description

Property from a Japanese Private Collection


Gustave Moreau

French

1826 - 1898

Salomé carrying the head of Saint John


signed _ Gustave Moreau _ lower right

gouache on paper laid down on board

unframed: 34 by 21.3cm., 13½ by 8½in.

framed: 50.5 by 37cm., 20 by 14½in.

Galerie Allard et Noël, Paris

Sale: Sotheby's, London, 2 July 1969, lot 37

Galerie Yoshii, Japan, by 1972

Private collection, Japan

Tokyo, The National Museum of Western Art; Kyoto, The National Museum of Modern Art, Gustave Moreau, 1995, no. 59 (illustrated in the catalogue)

Pierre-Louis Mathieu, Gustave Moreau, Sa vie, son œuvre, catalogue raisonné de l'œuvre achevé, Freiburg, 1976, no. 382, p. 355 (illustrated in black and white)

Pierre-Louis Mathieu, Gustave Moreau, Monographie et nouveau catalogue de l'œuvre achevé, Paris, 1998, no. 420, pp. 408 and 173 (illustrated in colour)