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FERNAND KHNOPFF (BELGIAN, 1858-1921)
La Médusa endormie
signed 'FERNAND KHNOPFF' (lower left, in the margin) and signed again with monogram (lower left)
pencil and pastel on paper
115⁄8 x 51⁄8 in. (29.2 x 13 cm.)
Executed circa 1896.
Provenance
Roland Wright, Brussels.
Anne-Marie Gillion-Crowet, Brussels.
The Picadilly Gallery, London, by 1970.
Wolf Uecker, Lausanne, by 1980.
Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, London, 26 November 1980, lot 210.
with Barry Freidman, New York.
Anonymous sale; Christie's, London, 27 June 1988, lot 712, where purchased by the present owner.Literature
L. Dumont-Wilden, Fernand Khnopff Brussels, 1907, illustrated opposite p. 38.
E. Lucie-Smith, Symbolist Art, London, 1972, p.2, fig.1.
Brooklyn Museum, Belgian Art, 1880-1914, 23 April-29 June 1980, exhibition catalogue, p. 109, no. 35, illustrated.
J.W. Howe, The Symbolist Art of Fernand Khnopff 1982, pp. 140, 148.
R.L. Delevoy, C. de Croes, G. Ollinger-Zinque, Fernand Khnopff Catalogue de l’œuvre, Brussels, 1987, pp. 300, 447, no. 282, illustrated.Exhibited
London, The Piccadilly Gallery, Drawings and Watercolours, December 1970-January 1971, no. 46.
Brighton, Art Gallery and Museum, Follies and Fantasies, 5 May-31 August 1971, no. 128.
London, The Piccadilly Gallery, Belgian Drawings since 1870, September-October 1971, no. 26.
Chicago, David and Alfred Smart Gallery, Fernand Khnopff and the Belgian Avant-Garde, 5 January - 26 February 1984, also New York, Barry Friedman Ltd, 12 March - 28 June 1984 , also Wilmington, Delaware Art Museum, 12 July - 26 August 1984, no. 17.
Vienna, Künstlerhaus, Zauber der Medusa, Europäische Manierism, April-July 1987, no. XII.22 (with incorrect measurements).Special notice
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