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175 - Gustav Adolf MOSSA (Nice, 1883–1971)
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Gustav Adolf MOSSA (Nice, 1883–1971) The Adoration of the Magi from the Jesus Christ series, 1905 Watercolour with gouache, graphite and ink on paper Inscribed ‘The Magi offered him gifts of gold, frankincense and myrrh’ in black ink at the bottom Bears the artist’s stamp ‘COLLECTION / G. A. MOSSA’ in the bottom right-hand corner The Adoration of the Magi from the Jesus Christ series, 1905, gouache watercolour, graphite and ink on paper, by G. A. Mossa 5.78 x 7.55 in. 14.7 x 19.2 cm Provenance: Violette Buttelli-Mossa Collection; Hirt Collection; Anonymous sale; Nice, Hôtel Plaza, Mes Fusade, Wetterwald, 22 April 1990, lot 159; Private collection, Paris Exhibitions: Gustav Adolf Mossa and Symbols, 1883–1971, Nice, Galerie des Ponchettes and Musée des Beaux-Arts Jules Chéret, 7 July – 31 December 1978, no. 81 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. 137, no. 59 Eros and Thanatos, Evian-les-Bains, Palais Lumière, 9 February – 18 May 2008, p. 134 Bibliography: Jean-Roger Soubiran, *Symbolist Watercolours and the Symbolist Visual Art of Gustav Adolf Mossa*, doctoral thesis, University of Aix-en-Provence – Marseille, 1978, p. 478, cited on p. 108 Jean-Roger Soubiran, *Gustav Adolf Mossa, 1883–1971*, Nice, 1985, p. 236, ill. no. 322, p. 237 Nathalie Magnardi, ‘Religious Works in the Symbolist Output of Gustav Adolf Mossa’, Master’s thesis, University of Paris I – Panthéon-Sorbonne, 1987, pp. 15–16, no. 8 Dominique Mollet, Gustav-Adolf Mossa and the Femme fatale, Basel, 1989, no. 17 Sylvie Lombart, Jean-Roger Soubiran, Gustav Adolf Mossa, Catalogue Raisonné of ‘Symbolist’ Works, Paris, 2010, pp. 156–157, no. A74 Gustav Adolf MOSSA (Nice, 1883–1971) 14.7 x 19.2 cm
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