174 - Gustav Adolf MOSSA (Nice, 1883–1971)

Gustav Adolf MOSSA (Nice, 1883–1971) Christus – 1907 Watercolor with gouache over pen and brown ink and pencil on paper Signed, located, and dated “GUSTAV ADOLF MOSSA / NICIENSIS FECIT MCMVII” in brown ink in the lower right corner Annotated “CHRISTUS” in the lower left corner Inscribed “quia vidisti me, credidisti; beati qui non viderunt / et crediderunt. / EV sec JOANNEM' in black ink in the lower right corner Christus - 1907, gouache watercolor 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 by descent; Private collection, Paris Exhibitions: Exhibition of works by G. A. Mossa, Paris, Galerie Georges Petit, April 1–15, 1911 Gustav Adolf Mossa and Symbols, 1883–1971, Nice, Galerie des Ponchettes and Jules Chéret Museum of Fine Arts, July 7–December 31, 1978, no. 143 Gustav Adolf Mossa: Symbolist Works, 1903–1918, Paris, Pavillon des Arts, June 19–September 27, 1992; Nice, Galerie des Ponchettes and Galerie Mossa, January 22–April 18, 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, February 9–May 18, 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, January 30–May 16, 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*, March 10, 1917, p. 1 Jean-Roger Soubiran, The Symbolist Watercolors and the Symbolist Visual Art of Gustav Adolf Mossa, doctoral dissertation, 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 Oeuvre 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, September 5, 2002, reprinted on p. 48 Sylvie Lombart, Jean-Roger Soubiran, Gustav Adolf Mossa, *Catalog Raisonné of “Symbolist” Works*, Paris, 2010, pp. 236–237, no. A 168 Gustav Adolf MOSSA (Nice, 1883–1971) 64.5 x 44.5 cm