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49 - Anna Diriks (Swedish, 1870–1932)
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Anna Diriks (Swedish, 1870–1932) Orpheus Enchanting the French Ballades, 1911 Ink, oil pastel, wash, watercolour and white highlights. Height 50, width 37 cm. Provenance: the collection of Laurent Danchin (1946–2017), writer, essayist and art critic, passed down through the family. Bibliography: reproduced in Volume XXIV (January–February–March 1911) of the journal *Vers et Prose* in commemoration of the banquet held in honour of Paul Fort on Thursday 9 February 1911. “Their Parisian studio, for its part, became one of the nerve centres of Montparnasse’s modern era. Paul Fort (1872–1960) established the headquarters of the Symbolist journal *Vers et Prose* at 18 Rue Boissonade between 1905 and 1914. Edvard Diriks contributed to it in 1906 with a translation of the Swedish poem ‘Hymn to the Moon’ by Oscar Levertin. The magazine’s first secretary, André Salmon (1881–1969), claimed to have drawn inspiration from Diriks for the character of the King of the North in his poem ‘La Marche nuptiale’, published in 1907 in the collection *Les Fééries* by *Vers et Prose*. He is said to have recalled a tongue-in-cheek nomination of ‘Edvard I’ to the throne of Norway at the time of the country’s separation from Sweden in 1905. In 1911, Anna Diriks provided Vers et Prose with the illustration *Orpheus Enchanting the French Ballads* to accompany the invitation to Paul Fort’s banquet. Laura Gutman, “Anna and Edvard Diriks, a Nordic couple in Montparnasse in the early 20th century”, 2025, accessed on the Musée d’Orsay website on 24 September 2026. A Swedish illustrator based in Paris and wife of the Norwegian painter Edvard Diriks, Anna Diriks was a regular in the circle of the poet Paul Fort and illustrated his Symbolist magazine *Vers et Prose*.
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About the sale LAURENT DANCHIN COLLECTION: ART BRUT AND OUTSIDER ART
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Auction time 11/07/2026 at 2:00 PM
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