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446 - Marie Vassilieff (Franco-Russian, 1884-1957) Eve, portrait o…
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Estimate €80,000 - €120,000
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Marie Vassilieff (Franco-Russian, 1884-1957) Eve, portrait of Juliette Germain, 1933 Canvas. Signed and dated. Height: 140 cm Width: 70.5 cm. Frame: 142.5 x 72.5 cm. Provenance : - Pierre Vassilieff collection; - Claude Bernès collection (1941-2025), Paris. This work is registered in the Claude Bernès archives under no. 17. Digitisation in very high definition and unique digital passport secured in the blockchain by Nüme accessible on the rouillac.com website. Bibliography: Claude Bernès and Benoît Noël, "Marie Vassilieff", published by BVR, Livarot, work reproduced on p. 126. Exhibitions : - 1995, Marie Vassilieff - Eine Russische Künstlerin in Paris, Das Verborgene Museum, Berlin. - 1996, Femmes et muses. Impressionists and Moderns, NHK Promotions, Mitsukoshi Art museum, Tokyo; art museum, Shimonoseki; Kintetsu Art Museum, Osaka and Huis Ben Bosch Museum, Nagasaki. - 1998, Marie Vassilieff dans ses murs, Musée du Montparnasse, Paris. - 1999, Montparnasse. L'Europe des artistes, regional archaeological museum, Aosta. - 2000, Montparnasse and the 14th arrondissement, Mairie du XIVe arrondissement, Paris. - 2003, L'atelier Montparnasse, Caja Vital Kutxa Foundation, Vitoria-Gasteiz. - 2006, Montparnasse, Musée du Montparnasse, Paris. Juliette Germain was the wife of Dr Pierre-Raoul Germain, a patron of the arts and a friend of Marie Vassilieff. She posed nude, standing in absolute frontality. Her tomboyish appearance, athletic build, steely profile and hairless sex give her a statuesque presence that Vassilieff treats with a radical economy of means. Lauren Jimerson notes that Juliette's body, reduced to a series of shifting geometric shapes, deliberately blurs the boundaries between male and female anatomy. The painting forms a diptych with the Modern Salome of 1931: where Eric throws a woman's head into the flames, Juliette embodies the upside-down female figure, neither mother nor conventional wife, but an Eve without original sin. It's not a commissioned portrait: it's a statement. This highly exhibited work is one of the best documented in the Bernès collection.
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About the sale MARIE VASSILIEFF - THE GOLDEN AGE OF MONTPARNASSE
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Auction time 06/08/2026 at 2:00 PM
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