Lot 233 : f - ARMAND POINT FRENCH, 1860-1932
Auction Location: United Kingdom - 2004
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Title:
SAINTE CECILIA
Description:
signed and dated APoint 1896 l.r.
pencil and charcoal heightened with chalk on paper
Dimensions:
184 by 74.5cm., 72 1/2 by 29 3/4 in.
Provenance:
PROPERTY FROM A PRIVATE COLLECTION
Sale: Sotheby's New York, 26 October 1983, lot 103
Purchased at the above sale by the present owner
Exhibited:
Paris, Cinquième Salon de la Rose-Croix, 1896, nos. 84 and 87 (a fresco version of the present work was exhibited in the Salon de la Société Nationale, Paris, 1896 and purchased by the French state)
Paris, Musée Galliéra, Esthètes et Magiciens, 1979-1980, no. 124
Published:
La Plume, 'Armand Point', Paris, 1901, p. 53, illustrated
Notes:
Executed in 1896, following a trip to Italy, the present work shows the influence of the Italian 'primitives' on Armand Point both in choice of subject matter and in the technique of fresco painting. Sainte Cecilia is a finished study for a fresco of the same title (now in the collection of the French State), and represents Point's fusion of Italian quattrocento, Pre-Raphaelite and Catholic mystical influences. The model was Helene Lindet, later Mme. Philippe Berthelot.
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