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EVA GONZALES (1849-1883)
Au bord de la mer (Honfleur)
signed 'Eva Gonzales' (upper left)
pastel on canvas
18 1/4 x 15 1/8 in. (46.3 x 37.2 cm.)
Executed in Honfleur in 1881
Provenance
Jules Rouam, Paris (1882).
Henri Guérard, Paris (1885).
Jeanne Guérard-Gonzalès, Paris (by descent from the above, 1897).
Jean-Raymond Guérard-Gonzalès, Paris (by descent from the above, 1924, until at least 1959).
Private collection (by 1990).
Galerie Hopkins-Custot, Paris.
Acquired from the above by the present owner, 18 March 2005.
Literature
"L'art et les artistes au Salon de 1882" in L'Artiste, vol. 2, April 1882, p. 141.
E. Véron, "Chronique des ateliers" in Courrier de l'art, vol. II, no. 14, 6 April 1882, p. 157.
P. Leroi, "Le Salon de 1882" in L'Art, October-December 1882, p. 96.
P. de Katow, "L'exposition Eva Gonzalès Salons de la 'Vie Moderne'" in Gil Blas, no. 1887, 17 January 1885, p. 3.
C. Marx, "L'exposition Eva Gonzalès" in Le Journal des Arts, 20 January 1885, p. 2.
P. Bayle, "L'exposition d'Eva Gonzalès" in La Vie Feminine, Excelsior, no. 1239, 7 April 1914, p. 2.
H. Genet, "Notes d'art, deux expositions retrospectives: Eva Gonzalès Berthe Morisot" in La Republique Française, 9 April 1914, p. 2.
R. Bouyer, "Expositions et concours" in Le Bulletin de l'art ancien et moderne, vol. 16, no. 620, 11 April 1914, p. 118, no. 620.
C. Roger-Marx, Eva Gonzalès Saint-Germain-en-Laye, 1950 (illustrated in color on the cover).
E. Nestor-Somlyo, "Eva Gonzalès" in Die Kunst und Das Schöne Heim, vol. 49, no. 10, July 1951, p. 379 (illustrated).
F. Mathey, Six femmes peintres, Paris, 1951, p. 8, no. 26 (illustrated; titled A la fenêtre ou Au bord de la mer).
S. Monneret, L'impressionnisme et son époque, dictionnaire international, Paris, 1978, vol. 1, p. 309.
M.-C. Sainsaulieu and J. de Mons, Eva Gonzalès Etude critique et catalogue raisonné, Paris, 1990, p. 238, no. 110 (illustrated, p. 239; illustrated again in situ in the 1885 exhibition, p. 274).
Exhibited
Paris, Palais des Champs-Elysées, Salon, May 1882, no. 3279.
Paris, Salons de la Vie Moderne, Catalogue des peintures et pastels de Eva Gonzalès January 1885, p. 38, no. 83.
Paris, Grand Palais des Champs-Elysées, Salon d'automne, October 1907, p. 264, no. 11 (titled A la fenêtre).
Paris, Galerie Bernheim-Jeune et Cie., Eva Gonzalès March-April 1914, pp. 8 and 10, no. 25 (illustrated, p. 8; titled A la fenêtre).
Paris, Galerie Marcel Bernheim, Exposition retrospective: Eva Gonzalès June-July 1932, no. 29 (titled A la fenêtre).
Paris, Galerie Alfred Daber, Eva Gonzalès March-April 1950, no. 18 (titled A la fenêtre).
Monaco, Musée national de Monaco, Exposition Eva Gonzalès March 1952, no. 23 (titled A la fenêtre).
Paris, Galerie Daber, Eva Gonzalès May-June 1959, no. 25 (titled A la fenêtre).
Frankfurt, Schirn Kunsthalle and Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco, Women Impressionists: Berthe Morisot Mary Cassatt Eva Gonzalès Marie Bracquemond February-September 2009, p. 208, no. 3 (illustrated in color).
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