Chrysanthèmes

Details

Edouard Manet (1832-1883)
Chrysanthèmes
signed 'Manet' (lower right)
oil on paper laid down on panel
8½ x 17 in. (21.6 x 43.2 cm.) (irregular)
Painted in 1881

Provenance

Henri Haro, Paris; sale, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 8-9 February 1912, lot 17.
Galerie Durand-Ruel et Cie., Paris.
H.D. Hughes (1921); sale, American Art Association, New York, 23 January 1925.
Durand-Ruel Galleries, New York (by 1936).
Alex, Reid & Lefevre, Ltd. (The Lefevre Galleries), London (by 1942).
Captain S.W. Sykes (by 1939); sale, Sotheby & Co., London, 28 June 1961, lot 50.
Anon. sale, Sotheby & Co., London, 22 June 1966, lot 11.
Acquired by Lew and Edie Wasserman, Los Angeles, circa 1970.

Literature

A. Tabarant, Manet et ses oeuvres, Paris, 1947, p. 393, no. 647 (illustrated, p. 622).
D. Rouart and D. Wildenstein, Edouard Manet, Catalogue raisonné, Geneva, 1975, vol. I, p. 284, no. 386 (illustrated, p. 285).

Exhibited

New York, Durand-Ruel Galleries, Still Life and Flowers, 1936, no. 2.
Cambridge, Fitzwilliam Museum, August 1939.
London, Alex, Reid & Lefevre, Ltd. (The Lefèvre Galleries), French Paintings of XIXth and XXth centuries, 1942.
London, Alex, Reid & Lefevre, Ltd. (The Lefèvre Galleries), Delacroix to Dufy, 1946, no. 29.
London, Alex, Reid & Lefevre, Ltd. (The Lefèvre Galleries), XIXth Century French Masters, 1949, no. 17.
Peterborough City Museum and Maxwell Art Gallery, French Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings, October 1953, no. 7.