Auction House

Auction: 19th Century Paintings

19. October 2016, 5:00 pm

Object overview
Object

0952

„Esprits nocturnes“
1897
pastel on paper on canvas
100 × 100 cm
signed, inscribed and dated: Gaston la Touche / 1897
on the reverse label of the Gallery Waterhouse & Dodd

Provenance

private collection, California;
Auction house Butterfields, San Francisco, 18th of May 1993, lot 1440;
collection of Thomas J. Williams, San Francisco;
Sotheby's London, 14th of November 2007, lot 270;
Gallery Waterhouse & Dodd, London;
since 2008 Austrian private property

Literature

Selina Baring MacLennan, Gaston La Touche. A Painter of Belle Époque Dreams, Woodbridge 2009, p. 149 (ill.)

The painting will be included in the forthcoming catalogue raisonné by Selina Barin Maclennan and Roy Brindley.

Estimate: € 15.000 - 30.000
Result: € 64.000 (incl. fees)
Auction is closed.