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174 - Gustav Adolf MOSSA (Nice, 1883–1971)
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Gustav Adolf MOSSA (Nice, 1883–1971) Christus – 1907 Watercolour with gouache over pen and brown ink and pencil on paper Signed, localised and dated ‘GUSTAV ADOLF MOSSA / NICIENSIS FECIT MCMVII’ in brown ink in the lower right-hand corner Annotated ‘CHRISTUS’ in the lower left-hand corner Inscribed ‘quia vidisti me, credidisti; beati qui non viderunt / et crediderunt. / EV sec JOANNEM’ in black ink in the lower right-hand corner Christus – 1907, gouache watercolour on pen and brown ink and pencil on paper, by G. A. Mossa 25.39 x 17.51 in. 64.5 x 44.5 cm Provenance: Mossa estate, 1972; France Mossa-Lombart Collection; Then passed down through the family; Private collection, Paris Exhibitions: Exhibition of works by G. A. Mossa, Paris, Galerie Georges Petit, 1–15 April 1911 Gustav Adolf Mossa and Symbols, 1883–1971, Nice, Galerie des Ponchettes and Musée des Beaux-Arts Jules Chéret, 7 July – 31 December 1978, no. 143 Gustav Adolf Mossa: Symbolist Works, 1903–1918, Paris, Pavillon des Arts, 19 June – 27 September 1992, Nice, Galerie des Ponchettes and Galerie Mossa, 22 January – 18 April 1993, p. 177, no. 98 Nall Mossa Dialogues, Vence, N.A.L.L. Art Association, July–September 1997, p. 12 Eros and Thanatos, Évian-les-Bains, Palais Lumière, 9 February – 18 May 2008, pp. 220–223, cited on pp. 43, 4, 204, reprinted on p. 219 The Secret Work of Gustav Adolf Mossa, Namur, Félicien Rops Museum, 30 January – 16 May 2010, cited on pp. 21, 70, fig. 12, reprinted on p. 21 Bibliography: Alexandre Barety, “Gustave-Adolphe Mossa, painter from Nice”, *L’éclaireur de Nice*, 10 March 1917, p. 1 Jean-Roger Soubiran, *The Symbolist Watercolours and the Symbolist Visual Art of Gustav Adolf Mossa*, doctoral thesis, University of Aix-en-Provence – Marseille, 1978, pp. 544–545, no. 167, cited on p. 134 Jean-Roger Soubiran, “Gothic Influences in the Symbolist Art of Gustave-Adolf Mossa”, *Nice historique*, 1978, no. 2, p. 77 Jean-Roger Soubiran, *Gustav Adolf Mossa, 1883–1971*, Nice, 1985, pp. 8, 135, 140, 279, ill. no. 323, p. 243 Nathalie Magnardi, ‘Religious Works in the Symbolist Output of Gustav Adolf Mossa’, Master’s thesis, University of Paris I – Panthéon-Sorbonne, 1987, pp. 32–33, ill. no. 42 Sylvie Lafon, Anne-Marie Clais, *Gustav Adolf Mossa, the Symbolist Scene*, Nice, 1993, pp. 72, 128, 129 Sandrine Bazile, “Obscene Scenes or the Fin-de-Siècle Refinement of the Obscene”, *Voix du regard*, no. 15, 5 September 2002, reprinted on p. 48 Sylvie Lombart, Jean-Roger Soubiran, Gustav Adolf Mossa, Catalogue Raisonné of ‘Symbolist’ Works, Paris, 2010, pp. 236–237, no. A 168 Gustav Adolf MOSSA (Nice, 1883–1971) 64.5 x 44.5 cm
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