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Tete de femme (Head of a woman)

Maker

Luc-Albert Moreau (artist)
1882-1948

Title

Tete de femme (Head of a woman)

Date of Production

1921

Medium

black chalk on wove paper (examined under microscope), the left edge deckle, now laid down on a paper support

Dimensions

Height: 34 cm
Width: 26.6 cm

Accession Number

D.1935.SC.144

Mode of Acquisition

Samuel Courtauld, gift, 1935

Credit

The Courtauld, London (Samuel Courtauld Trust)

Copyright

Work in the public domain

Location

Not currently on display

Keywords




Provenance

Léon Marseille (Paris); purchased there by Percy Moore Turner of the Independent Gallery (London), 18 May 1922 (£8, or 4000 f); purchased there by Samuel Courtauld, London (1876-1947), 3 December 1924 (£12 12s); Courtauld Gift 1935

Literature

Salmon, Dimitri, Percy Moore Turner, Précieux Conseiller de Samuel and Elizabeth Courtauld, Fondation Louis Vuitton 2019
pp. 33n151, 34n155, 35-36, 38, no. 16 on pp. 69-70
illus. no. 16 on p. 69

Salmon, Dimitri, et al., Le Saint Joseph Charpentier de Georges de la Tour: un don au Louvre de Percy Moore Turner, Paris 2017
pp. 404 and 432n486

John House, Impressionism for England: Samuel Courtauld as Patron and Collector, Courtauld Institute Galleries 1994
no. 105
illus. p. 217 ...More

Cooper, Douglas, The Courtauld Collection, London 1954
no. 144 ...Less

Inscriptions

Watermark: none.

Collector's mark: none.

Inscription: Recto: lower left corner, graphite, former acc. no.: "80.35"; lower right corner, black chalk, signed and dated?: “luc-Albert Moreau_ 921.”

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