Founded in 2005 by Samuel Drylewicz and located in a private villa in the 14th arrondissement of Paris, Galerie Drylewicz specializes in paintings from the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
Focusing on the avant-gardes of this prolific period, and particularly the Symbolist movement, the gallery is always keen to defend its own particular taste and to present selected works by renowned artists, talented anonymous artists and forgotten artists whom it brings back into the limelight.
Albert BESNARD
(Paris, 1849 – 1934)
Un Flamenco
also known as Danse espagnole
1898
Oil on canvas
73.5 x 99.5 cm
Signed and dated ‘ABesnard 98’ lower right
Provenance
Baron Edoardo Franchetti (1862–1926)
Exhibitions
– Salon of the Société Nationale des Beaux-arts, 1898, Paris, Grand Palais, 1st May to 30 June 1898, Painting section, cat. no. 116: ‘Un Flamenco’
– Exposition Internationale Universelle, Decennial Exhibition of Fine Arts (1889–1900), Grand Palais des Beaux-Arts (Avenue d’Antin), 15 April to 12 November 1900, Group II, Works of Art, cat. no. 163: ‘Spanish Dance’
Bibliography
– Georges Lecomte, “Contemporary Artists – Albert Besnard – Second Article”, Gazette des Beaux-arts, February 1905, p. 160 [reproduced].
– Félicien Grétry, “Theatrical Dance”, Musica, December 1908, p. 188 [reproduced].
– Achille Segard, Contemporary Painters: the Set Designers – Albert Besnard, Paris, P. Ollendorff, 1914, p. 307 [reproduced].
– Camille Mauclair, Albert Besnard: the man and his work, an illustrated volume with 32 separate heliogravures, Paris, Delagrave, 1914, pp. 18, 139 and 184 [reproduced].
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