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BERTHE MORISOT Bourges 1841 – 1895 Paris
Jeune fille étendue
Stamped with the signature lower left: Berthe Morisot Canvas: 25 ⅝ x 32 ¼ in / 65.6 x 81.9 cm Frame size: 35 ¼ x 42 in / 89.5 x 106.7 cm In an antique Louis XIV carved and gilded frame Painted in 1893 PROVENANCE:
Estate of the artist M Gorce, Paris Galerie Durand-Ruel et Cie, Paris, acquired from the above in November 1929 Durand-Ruel Galleries, New York, acquired from the above in April 1946 Sam Salz, Inc., New York Mr and Mrs Philip Levin, New York, acquired from the above in April 1968 The Collection of Janice Levin, a gift from the above in 2001 EXHIBITED:
New York, Durand-Ruel Galleries, Exhibition of Paintings by Mary Cassatt and Berthe Morisot, October-November 1930, no.18 New York, Durand-Ruel Galleries, Exhibition of Paintings by the Master Impressionists, October-November 1934, no.15 London, M Knoedler & Co., Inc., Berthe Morisot, Madame Eugène Manet, May-June 1936, no.9
New York, Durand-Ruel Galleries, Exhibition of Paintings by Berthe Morisot and Mary Cassatt, October-November 1939, no.2 New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Collects, JulySeptember 1968, p.17, no.134 Washington DC, National Gallery of Art; Fort Worth, Kimbell Art Museum, and South Hadley, Massachusetts, Mount Holyoke College Art Museum, Berthe Morisot – Impressionist, September 1987-May 1988, exh. cat. by C Stuckey and W Scott, pp.163-164, no.96, illus. in colour New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, A Very Private Collection: Janice H. Levin’s Impressionist Pictures, November 2002-February 2003, p.16, no.3, illus. in colour The Birmingham Museum of Art and elsewhere, An Impressionist Eye: Painting and Sculpture from the Philip and Janice Levin Foundation, February 2004-January 2005 LITER ATURE:
M Angoulvent, Berthe Morisot, Paris 1933, p.147, no.568, illus. entitled Sur la chaise longue M-L Bataille and G Wildenstein, Berthe Morisot, Catalogue des peintures, pastels et aquarelles, Paris 1961, p.46, no.340, fig. 339 A Higgonet, Berthe Morisot’s Images of Women, Cambridge 1992, pp.242-143, no.103, illus. A Clairet, D Montalant, and Y Rouart, Berthe Morisot, Catalogue raisonné de l’oeuvre peint, Montolivet 1997, p.282, no.343, illus.