Exceptionelle II
Lot 386:
Description
Keywords: French Symbolist, Les Nabis, Bacchanale, female figures, forest scene, Musée Galliera, French art 1900s, Art Nouveau, Gérard Lévy Collection, exhibited Paris
Ker-Xavier Roussel (1867–1944) Symbolist oil on canvas painting titled Bacchanale – Esquisse, depicting women in a forested, mythic setting at sunset, label on reverse
Provenance: From the dispersal of the famous Gérard Lévy Collection; thence by descent, Artcurial. Exhibited in Aesthetes and Magicians: Symbolists from Parisian Collections, Musée Galliera, Paris, Dec. 1970 – Jan. 1971, cat. no. 149.
Born François Xavier Roussel in Lorry-lès-Metz, Moselle in 1867, at age fifteen he studied at the Lycée Condorcet in Paris; alongside his friend Édouard Vuillard, he also studied at the studio of painter Diogène Maillart. In 1888, he enrolled in the École des Beaux-Arts*, and soon began frequenting the Académie Julian* where Maurice Denis and other students formed the group Les Nabis.
Art: 21 1/4 x 25 1/2 in. (54 x 64.8 cm.) approx
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