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Émile Bernard: Looking Back

Result EUR60,960
Published on , by Anne Doridou-Heim
Auction on 19 February 2021 - 13:30 (CET) - Salle 1-7 - Hôtel Drouot - 75009

The return to the classical order of a former fervent avant-gardist was acclaimed by the bidding.

Émile Bernard (1868-1941), Jeune fille au châle à fleurs devant une tapisserie, 1908,... Émile Bernard: Looking Back

Émile Bernard (1868-1941), Jeune fille au châle à fleurs devant une tapisserie, 1908, oil on canvas, 122 x 121 cm (48 x 47.6 in).
Result: €60,960

Émile Bernard (1897-1941) was a complex artist. After spearheading modernity—notably alongside Paul Gauguin —and producing powerful works like Madeleine in the Bois d'Amour and the Symbolic Self-Portrait (both now in the Musée d'Orsay), he turned to a far more subdued style in the first decade of the 20th century.…
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Friday 19 February 2021 - 13:30 (CET) - Live
Salle 1-7 - Hôtel Drouot - 75009 Paris
Beaussant Lefèvre & Associés
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