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L'Assumption de Hannele Mattern
L'Assumption de Hannele Mattern

L'Assumption de Hannele Mattern

Artist Paul Sérusier French, 1864 - 1927
Date1893
MediumColor lithograph
DimensionsOverall: 11 7/8 × 8 3/4 in. (30.2 × 22.2 cm)
ClassificationsPrints
Credit LineThe Sparling Family Collection
Object number2014.2.61
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SignedSigned in the stone at the LR of the image area, not in the text: "P Sér"
MarkingsDealer sticker on matboard: "Paul Sérusier, French (1864-1927)/L'Assomption de Hannele Mattern, color lithograph, 1893../11 7/8 x 8 3/4 inches./A fine impression in fine condition apart from slight toning at the edges of the sheet. Narrow but full margins./A widely illustrated Nabis lithograph./$800.00"
DescriptionProgram cover for a play by the above title, staged at Le Theatre Libre as "le troisieme spectacle de la Saison 1893-1894" "Poeme de reve (dreams) in two parts".

A "dream poem" written by Gerhart Hauptmann. The subject is the illness and death of a young girl in an alms house.Exhibition HistoryToulouse-Lautrec & Company: Prints from the Belle Époque, March 3 - May 27, 2012Provenanceby 2011, Riderwood, MD, Conrad Graeber Fine Art
2011, Houston, TX, Tobin Sparling
2014, Glens Falls, NY, The Hyde Collection Trust