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Description: C‚LINE ADŠLE MARILLIER SIGNED IN GOLD AND INSCRIBED 'ANNO - MDCCCLXXXV/AMAN JEAN PINXIT/IMAGO C‚LINE ADŠLE MARILLIER/AETATIS SUAE/XXV' (UPPER RIGHT) OIL ON CANVAS 451/4 X 35.5/8 IN. (115 X 90.5 CM.) PAINTED IN 1885 NOTES THE BOOK HELD BY THE SITTER IS MAX STIRNER'S L'UNIQUE ET SA PROPRI‚T‚ AND AN EXTRACT FROM THE BOOK IS INSCRIBED ON THE STRETCHER. THE BOOK, ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED IN GERMAN IN 1845 AS DER EINZIGE UND SEIN EIGENTUM, WAS A WORK DEAR TO THE SYMBOLIST MOVEMENT AS IT PROMOTED UNCOMPROMISING INDIVIDUALISM. AMAN-JEAN, ONE OF THE MOST WORLDLY OF THE SYMBOLISTS WHOSE ACQUAINTANCES INCLUDED SEURAT, PUVIS DE CHAVANNES AND MALLARM‚, PORTRAYS A FELLOW DISCIPLE OF THE MOVEMENT, CAUGHT IN DEEP CONTEMPLATION. SOLD WITH A PHOTO-CERTIFICATE FROM ANNE AND ROBERT HELLEBRANTH, DATED PARIS LE 23 AVRIL 1998. TO BE INCLUDED IN THE FORTHCOMING AMAN-JEAN CATALOGUE RAISONN‚ CURRENTLY IN PREPARATION. HELLEBRANTH.