GUSTAVE DORÉ (1832-1883) '...here I opened wide the door; Darkness...

GUSTAVE DORÉ (1832-1883)
'...here I opened wide the door; Darkness there and nothing more...': an illustration for Edgar Allan Poe: 'The Raven'
signed Gv Doré (lower right)
black chalk, pen and brown ink, grey wash, heightened with white on paper
52,7 x 35,4 cm. (20 ¾ x 13 7⁄8 in.)

Provenance
Karl & Faber, Munich, 27-28 November 1980, lot 466.
Acquired at the above sale; then by descent to the present owners.

Literature
Hamburg, Hamburger Kunsthalle, Verhext – Phantastische Graphik aus der Sammlung Hegewisch, November 1997-July 1998 (no cat.).
Hamburg, Hamburger Kunsthalle, Aus der Werkstatt des Künstlers – Druckgraphik und vorbereitende Zeichnungen der Sammlung Hegewisch, March-October 1999 and March-October 2000, p. 38 (ill.) & p. 94.