Mar 09, 2023 - Sale 2629

Sale 2629 - Lot 8

Price Realized: $ 562
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 700 - $ 1,000

PAUL BERTHON (1872-1909)

[SALOMÉ.] 1898.


33x16 inches, 83 3/4x40 1/2 cm.
Condition B+: time-staining, repaired tears and rippling in margins.

Entitled Concubines Celebres, this is one of a pair of decorative panels by Berthon (the other is Phryne). The panels focus on famous, seductive beauties from Classical history, depicted amidst high Art Nouveau ornamentation. Arwas p. 24.