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Artist or Maker: Fernand Khnopff (1858-1921)

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Provenance: Shepherd Gallery, New York.
The Piccadilly Gallery, London.
Galleria Galatea, Milan.
Dr Mario Tazzoli, Switzerland, and thence by descent to the present owner.

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Exhibited: Brussels, Musées Royaux de Peinture, Société Royale Belge des Aquarellistes, 46ème Exposition, 2 December 1905, no. 63.
Barcelona, V Exposicion internacional de Arte, April - October 1907, no. 59.
Brussels, Cercle artistique, Salon de la Femme. XXVIe Salon de l'Oeuvre des Artistes de Liège, June 1909, no. 45.
Brussels, Musée Moderne, L'Estampe, 4ème Salon annuel, January 1910, no. 365.
Turin, Galleria Galatea, Del Simbolismo, October - November 1970 (illustrated).

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Literature: H.N., 'Von Ausstellungen und Sammlungen. Brüssel', in Die Kunst für Alle, Munich, 15 February 1906, vol. XXI, no. 10, p. 239.
E. Joly, 'Un Peintre symboliste belge. Fernand Khnopff', in Le Figaro Artistique, Paris, 3 April 1924 (illustrated p. 4).
R.L. Delevoy, C. de Croës & G. Ollinger-Zinque, Fernand Khnopff, Catalogue de l'oeuvre, Brussels, 1987, no. 416 (illustrated p. 347).

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