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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Mar 1, 2017 | Christie's | London | Impressionist and Modern Art Evening Sale | 3 | $****** - ****** | Femme en noir or Avant le théâtre |
paintings
57.5 x 30.8 cm (22.63 x 12.13 in)
oil on canvas
signed 'Berthe Morisot' (lower right)
Alfonso Portier, Paris, by 1892.
Oscar Schmitz, Dresden.
Wildenstein & Co., Inc., New York.
Edward G. Robinson, Beverly Hills, by 1938, and thence by descent; sale, Christie's, New York, 17 May 1983, lot 30.
Private collection, Paris.
Acquired from the above by the present owner in 2012.
(Probably) Paris, Galerie Durand-Ruel, 2e Exposition de peinture (2nd Impressionist Exhibition), April 1876, no. 178, p. 17 (titled ‘Figure de femme’).
Paris, Boussod, Valadon et Cie., Exposition de tableaux, pastels et dessins par Berthe Morisot, May - June 1892, no. 6, p. 16 (titled ‘Femme en noir’).
Paris, Galerie Durand-Ruel, Berthe Morisot (Madame Eugène Manet), March 1896, no. 66, p. 21 (titiled 'Dame en noir).
Zurich, Kunsthaus, Sammlung Oscar Schmitz: Französische Malerei des XIX. Jahrhunderts, 1932, no. 45, p. 8.
New York, Wildenstein & Co., Berthe Morisot, November - December 1936, no. 45, p. 8.
New York, Wildenstein & Co., Great portraits from Impressionism to Modernism, March 1938, no. 28 (illustrated).
New York, Museum of Modern Art, Forty Paintings from the Edward G. Robinson Collection, March - April 1953, no. 19.
Los Angeles, County Museum of Art, The Gladys Lloyd Robinson and Edward G. Robinson Collection, no. 35 (illustrated); this exhibition later travelled to San Francisco, Palace of the Legion of Honor, September 1956 - January 1957.
New York, Wildenstein & Co., Loan Exhibition of Paintings: Berthe Morisot, November - December 1960, no. 14 (illustrated).
Washington, D.C., National Gallery of Art, The New Painting: Impressionism, 1874-1886, January - April 1986, no. 178, p. 163, vol. I & no. II-178, p. 42, vol. II (illustrated p. 61, vol. II; titled ‘Figure de femme’); this exhibition later travelled to San Francisco, Fine Arts Museum, April - July 1986.
Paris, Galerie Hopkins-Thomas, Berthe Morisot, April - June 1987, no. 4 (illustrated).
Washington, D.C., National Gallery of Art, Berthe Morisot: Impressionist, September - November 1987, no. 29, pp. 71 & 218 (illustrated pl. 29, p. 73; dated ‘1875-1876’); this exhibition later travelled to Fort Worth, Kimbell Art Museum, December 1987 - February 1988; and South Hadley, Mount Holyoke College Art Museum, March - May 1988.
Tokyo, Isetan Art Museum, Shinjuku, Les femmes impressionnistes: Cassatt, Gonzalès, Morisot, March - April 1995, no. 3 (illustrated p. 33); this exhibition later travelled to Hiroshima, Museum of Art, April - May 1995; Osaka, Takashimaya, Ground Hall, May - June 1995; and Hakodake, Museum of Art, July - August 1995.
Paris, Musée d’Orsay, L'Impressionnisme et la Mode, September 2012 - January 2013, no. 52, pp. 116 & 300 (illustrated p. 116); this exhibition later travelled to New York, Metropolitan Museum, Impressionism, Fashion and Modernity, February - May 2013, no. 21, p. 289 (illustrated p. 66); and Chicago, Art Institute, June - September 2013.
Hamburg, Kunsthalle, Manet - Sehen: Der Blick der Moderne, May - September 2016, no. 23, p. 143 (illustrated).
K. Scheffler, Kunst und Künstler, 1920, p. 186.
M. Dormoy, L'Amour de l'Art, vol. 7, January 1926, no. p. 341 (titled 'Avant le bal').
Wildenstein & Co., The Oscar Schmitz Collection: Masterpieces of French painting of the Nineteenth Century, Paris, 1936, no. 45, pp. 100 & 142 (illustrated p. 101; dated ‘circa 1875’).
M.L. Bataille & G. Wildenstein, Berthe Morisot: Catalogue des peintures, pastels et aquarelles, 1961, no. 59, p. 27 (illustrated pl. 28).
E. Mongan, Berthe Morisot: Drawings, Pastels, Watercolours, Paintings, New York, 1961 (illustrated; titled ‘Lady in Evening Dress’).
J. Robinson, Edward G. Robinson's World of Art, New York, 1975, p. 12 (illustrated p. 13).
D. Montalant, ‘Berthe Morisot’, in L’Estampille, June 1987, p. 8.
T.J. Edelstein, Perspectives on Morisot, New York, 1990, no. 10 (illustrated; dated '1875-1876').
A. Higonnet, Berthe Morisot's Image of Women, Cambridge, 1992, no. 18, p. 71(illustrated fig. 18).
A. Clairet, D. Montalant & Y. Rouart, Berthe Morisot, 1841-1896: Catalogue Raisonné de l'oeuvre peint, Montolivet, 1997, no. 59, pp. 24 & 142 (illustrated).
J.D. Rey, Berthe Morisot, Paris, 2010, p. 64 (illustrated).
↵↵signed 'Berthe Morisot' (lower right)↵oil on canvas↵22 5/8 x 12 1/8 in. (57.3 x 30.7 cm.)↵Painted in 1875
