Constantin Meunier - Chemin dessendant du terril - image-1

Lot 187 Dα

Constantin Meunier - Chemin dessendant du terril

Auction 972 - overview Cologne
03.12.2010, 00:00 - Modern Art
Estimate: 2.000 € - 3.000 €
Result: 4.200 € (incl. premium)

Watercolor and bodycolor on lightly textured paper, mounted on thin canvas 34.9 x 50 cm, framed under glass. Signed C Meunier in red lower right. - The canvas bordered with paper tape on the edges, visible on the front margins approx. 0.5 cm; the composition continued on this paper. - With minor bumps resp. paper injuries on the margins at lower left and upper right.

Certificate

We would like to thank Pierre Baudson, former conservator at the Musée Constantin Meunier, Brussels, for kind information confirming authenticity.

Provenance

Formerly collection Gottfried von Nostitz, Munich

Literature

A. Thiery u. E. Van Dievoet, Catalogue complet des oeuvres peintes, dessinées et sculptées de Constantin Meunier, Leuven 1909, Aquarelle Nr. 496 ("Collection allemande"); see Musée Constantin Meunier, Catalogue Sommaire, Bruxelles 1939, Nr. 352 (Pastell "Le Terril")