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Artist or Maker: Paul Sérusier (1863-1927)

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Description: Portrait d'Emile Bernard à Florence
indistinctly stamped with the initials 'PS' (lower left)
tempera on canvas
28 3/4 x 22 1/4 in. (73 x 56.5 cm.)
Painted in 1893

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Provenance: Mlle Henriette Boutaric, Paris, by 1955.
Acquired by the present owner circa 1960.

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Exhibited: Paris, Musée National d'Art Moderne, Bonnard, Vuillard et les Nabis (1888-1903), June - October 1955.

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Published: C. Chassé, The Nabis & their period, London, 1960 (illustrated pl. 33).
M. Guicheteau, Paul Sérusier, Paris, 1976, no. 76 (illustrated pp. 78 & 213).
C. Boyle-Turner, Paul Sérusier, Ann Arbor, 1980, p. 91 (illustrated fig. 34).

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