BERTHE MORISOT, (1841-1895)

Deux filles lisant à une table

Deux filles lisant à une table
stamped with the artist's signature (lower right)
coloured crayon and pencil on paper
22.4 x 30.5cm (8 13/16 x 12in).
Executed circa 1890

The authenticity of this work has kindly been confirmed by Monsieur Yves Rouart. This work will be included in the forthcoming Berthe Morisot catalogue raisonné des oeuvres sur papier, currently being prepared.

Provenance
Fritz Gross Collection, London, no. 374.
Thence by descent to the present owner.

Exhibited
Oxford, The Ashmolean Museum, Impressionist Drawings from British Public and Private Collections, 11 March - 20 April 1986, no. 45 (later travelled to Manchester & Glasgow).

Fritz Gross was an artist, architect, designer and collector. Born in Vienna in 1895, Gross escaped Nazi Germany alongside his family in 1938 and moved to London on the invitation of the President of the Royal Institute of British Architects. Gross amassed a collection of artworks by some of the finest names in Impressionist and Modern art: Toulouse-Lautrec, Degas, Picasso, Gauguin and Renoir. His passion for collecting was celebrated in an exhibition dedicated to his collection held at the Ashmolean Museum in 1990.