Georges de FEURE (1868-1943) - Lot 144

Georges de FEURE (1868-1943) Woman with two doves Fan-shaped gouache, signed and dedicated to Madame Albert Sarraut lower left 21 x 67 cm Provenance : - Raymond Toupenet Collection, Paris - Lady Jane Abdy Collection - Acquired from the above by Mlle J. - By descent to current owner(s) Exhibitions : - Georges de Feure, Odakyu Grand Gallery, Tokyo and Daimaru Museum, Umeda, Osaka, July - September 1990, N°12 - Du symbolisme à l'art nouveau (1890-1905) Musée départemental Maurice Denis, Le Prieuré, Saint Germain en Laye, March 11-June 5, 1995, and Fondation Neumann, Gingins, Switzerland, June 15-September 3, 1995 n°16 of the catalog Bibliography : - Georges De Feure, Maître du Symbolisme et de l'Art Nouveau by Ian Millman, Courbevoie, 1992, reproduced page 112 Femme aux deux colombes is said to have been a gift from de Feure to Albert Sarraut's wife, probably in gratitude for the favorable article Sarraut had published about him in L'Artiste, on the occasion of the Salon de la Société nationale des Beaux-Arts in April 1895. Ian Millman notes a resemblance between the woman shown here and the princess in De Feure's frontispiece for Marcel Schwob's La Porte des rêves.