Fernand Khnopff (1858-1921)
Lot 117 THE PROPERTY OF A PRIVATE ENGLISH COLLECTOR

Fernand Khnopff (1858-1921)

Etude de nu

Closed22 June 2011

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Fernand Khnopff (1858-1921)
Etude de nu
signed 'FERNAND KHNOPFF' (lower left)
pastel, wax cayon, charcoal and pencil on paper
4½ x 11 7/8 in. (11.2 x 30 cm.)
Executed circa 1910

Vente Fernand Khnopff (the artist's atelier sale), Galerie George Giroux, Brussels, 27 November 1922, lot 64.
Emile de Bardzki, Switzerland, and thence by descent to his daughter, Julie-Line de Bardzki, by 1962.
Private collection, Europe, by whom acquired in 1964; sale, Sotheby's, London, 23 November 2000, lot 43.
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner.

Specialist note

This work will be included in the forthcoming Fernand Khnopff catalogue raisonné currently in preparation by Gisèle Ollinger-Zinque and is included in the Fernand Khnopff archives under no. 479.

This work is related to Etude de nu, circa 1910 (Delevoy, de Croes & Ollinger-Zinque no. 479bis).