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Danseuse dans les coulisses (Dancer in the Wings)
Maker
1852-1931
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Width: 29.2 cm
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Keywords
wings (theater spaces)
Label Text
Here Forain renders the dancer in gauzy white gouache leaning against a wall and looking out at us. Her facial features, like those of the two sketchily-defined men behind her, are muddled to the point of ambiguity, leaving us to interpret the expressions and intentions of each figure.
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Provenance
Exhibition History
Impressionist, Post-Impressionist and Related Drawings from the
Courtauld Collections, The Courtauld Gallery, London, 11/05/1988-04/09/1988
The Impressionists and Post-Impressionists from the Courtauld Collection, Tokyo, 12/01/1984-28/02/1984; Kyoto, 03/03/1984-03/04/1984; Osaka, 12/04/1984-08/05/1984; Australia National Gallery, Canberra, 01/06/1984-06/08/1984 ...More
Drawings from the Courtauld, Graves Art Gallery, Sheffield; Wolverhampton Art Gallery; Bolton Museum and Art Gallery; Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle; Ferens Art Gallery, Hull; Portsmouth Museum and Art Gallery, 1977-79
Drawings and Engravings from the Courtauld Collection, The Courtauld Gallery, London, December 1959-April 1960
Impressionistes de la Collection Courtauld de Londres, Orangerie, Paris, 1955
Samuel Courtauld memorial exhibition, Tate Gallery, London, 1948
Drawings by Forain, Arthur Tooth & Sons, London, 1925 (Feb.) ...Less
Literature
cat. no. 69
illus. p. 129
John House, Impressionism for England: Samuel Courtauld as Patron and Collector, Courtauld Institute Galleries 1994
no. 79
illus. p. 201
Impressionist, Post-Impressionist and Related Drawings from the Courtauld Collections, Courtauld Gallery, London, 1988
cat. no. 20 ...More
The Impressionists and Post-Impressionists from the Courtauld Collection, Tokyo, Kyoto, Osaka and Canberra, 1984
cat. no. 29
Drawings from the Courtauld, Graves Art Gallery, Sheffield; Wolverhampton Art Gallery; Bolton Museum and Art Gallery; Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle; Ferens Art Gallery, Hull; Ports, 1977-79
cat. no. 11
illus. p. 22
Impressionistes de la Collection Courtauld de Londres, Orangerie, Paris, 1955
cat. no. 76
Cooper, Douglas, The Courtauld Collection, London 1954
no. 119, p. 137 ...Less
Inscriptions
Inscription: Recto: lower right corner, black chalk, signed: “forain”. Verso: upper left corner, both graphite: “T 8000” and below that “3079 / T” [Arthur Tooth inventory numbers?]; lower left corner, graphite, circled: “no. 64”; lower right corner, graphite: “7500-” [written over “6000-”].
Collector's mark: none.
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