About the Artwork
Maria Writing
1892
Émile Bernard
1868-1941
French
Unknown
Black crayon on heavy off-white wove paper
Image: 12 1/8 × 7 7/8 inches (30.8 × 20 cm) Sheet: 12 1/8 × 7 7/8 inches (30.8 × 20 cm)
Drawings
Prints, Drawings & Photographs
Founders Society Purchase, John S. Newberry Fund
73.249
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Markings
Signed and dated, in brown ink, lower right: Maria | Pont Aven | 1892
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Stamp, in black ink, lower right: Emile Bernand Stamp, in purple ink: E.B Traces, in purple ink, lower right of portrait
Provenance
Private collection (Paris, France)
Stefanie Maison (London, England)
1973-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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Emile Bernard, 1868-1941: Peintures, Desseins, Graveurs. Exh. cat., Lille Palais des Beaux-Arts. Lille, 1967, no. 68.
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Émile Bernard, Maria Writing, 1892, black crayon on heavy off-white wove paper. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase, John S. Newberry Fund, 73.249.
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