Elegant at the races

Description of the artwork

This painting, painted around 1908-1910 by Georges de Feure, probably at the request of Jules Pams, is similar in size to Femme dans la Neige, which was also in the Schur collection. On the basis of this, Ian Millman, a specialist in the artist, suggests that these two paintings could both have been part of a larger group representing, perhaps, the Four Seasons (I. Millman, Georges de Feure, Tokyo-Osaka, 1990, p. 129).

Origin

Commissioned by the Bardou-Job family, Château de Valmy, Argelès-sur-Mer
Collection S. Joël Schur, New Jersey, in 1990-1992
Anonymous sale, Drouot Montaigne, Paris, 29 March 1995, lot 21
Anonymous sale, Drouot Montaigne, Paris, 6 December 1995, lot 163
Private collection, Belgium

Literature

I. Millman, Georges De Feure. Maître du symbolisme et de l'art nouveau, Paris, 1992, p. 226 (illustrated in colour)
B. de Perthuis, 'La mode et l'image de la femme au XXe siècle. II. Quand la Belle Époque travaille du chapeau', in La Gazette de l'Hôtel Drouot, 27th September 2002, no. 34 (illustrated in colour, p. 159)