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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 Watercolor 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 lower right corner The Adoration of the Magi from the Jesus Christ series, 1905, gouache watercolor, 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, April 22, 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, July 7–December 31, 1978, no. 81 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. 137, no. 59 Eros and Thanatos, Evian-les-Bains, Palais Lumière, February 9–May 18, 2008, p. 134 Bibliography: Jean-Roger Soubiran, *Symbolist Watercolors and the Symbolist Visual Art of Gustav Adolf Mossa*, doctoral dissertation, 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 Oeuvre 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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