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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Dec 2, 2020 | Sotheby's | London | European & British Art | 30 | $****** - ****** | La Danse pyrrhique |
paintings
66 x 92 cm (25.98 x 36.22 in)
oil on canvas
signed J.L. GEROME lower right
Gail Borden Munsill ( circa 1890-1910)
Ruth Clark Holmes Munsill (by 1941; by descent from the above)
Penelope Holmes Munsill Harris (by descent from the above)
Laurence van Doren Harris Jr. (by descent from the above)
Daniel B. Grossman, Inc., New York (sale: Sotheby"s, Parke Bernet, 25 January 1980, lot 292, as La Phyrique )
Sale: Phillips, London, 30 October 1981
The Fine Art Society, London (by April 1984; stock no. E6 / 21)
Purchased from the above
Possibly, Oeuvres de J.L. Gérôme , vol. XXIII, 13, illustrated (as La Phyrique [sic])
Phoebe Pool, Impressionism , London, 1967, p. 92, fig. 65, described & illustrated (as Sword Dance ), p. 274, catalogued (as present whereabouts unknown)
Peter A. Clayton, The Rediscovery of Ancient Egypt: Artists and Travellers in the Nineteenth Century , London, 1982, p. 178, illustrated (as Sword-Dance )
Gerald M. Ackerman, The Life and Work of Jean-Léon Gérôme , Paris, 1986, p. 173, (as The Pyrrhic Dance) , illustrated, pp. 290-91, no. 487, catalogued & illustrated (as The Pyrrhic Dance [Sword dance before Egyptian ruins]/La Danse pyrrhique )
Caroline Juler, Najd Collection of Orientalist Paintings , London, 1991, p. 141, described, p. 152, catalogued & illustrated
Gerald M. Ackerman, Jean-Léon Gérôme: His Life, His Work , Paris, 1997, p. 175 (as The Pyrrhic Dance )
Gerald M. Ackerman, Jean-Léon Gérôme, Monographie révisée , Paris, 2000, p. 180, illustrated, pp. 360-61, no. 487, catalogued & illustrated (as La Danse pyrrhique )
Property from the Najd Collection
Jean-Léon Gérôme
French
1824 - 1904
La Danse pyrrhique
signed J.L. GEROME lower right
oil on canvas
Unframed: 66 by 92cm., 26 by 36in.
Framed: 98 by 127cm., 38½ by 50in.
We are grateful to Dr Emily M. Weeks for her assistance in cataloguing this work which will be included in her revision of the artist"s catalogue raisonné by Gerald M. Ackerman.
