Pia Gallo
Pia Gallo has been a private art dealer since 1981, specializing in museum-quality prints and drawings from the 16th to the early 20th centuries. Ms. Gallo is a member of the IFPDA and the CSEDT. She has participated in several fairs, including the annual IFPDA Fine Print Fair, Master Drawings/New York, and the London Original Print Fair, and her clients include many major museums and private collectors throughout the world.
Artists presented at the Paris Print Fair
PIERRE BONNARD
UGO DA CARPI
MARY CASSATT
BARTOLOMEO CORIOLANO
EDGAR DEGAS
MAURICE DENIS
MASTER OF THE DIE
HENDRICK GOLTZIUS
CLAUDE LORRAIN
JEAN-BAPTISTE MONNOYER
BERTHE MORISOT
ODILON REDON
HENRI RIVIÈRE
ROELANT ROGHMAN
GIUSEPPE SCOLARI
PAUL SIGNAC
GIOVANNI BATTISTA TIEPOLO
GIOVANNI DOMENICO TIEPOLO
JAN VAN DE VELDE
EDOUARD VUILLARD
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Henri Rivière (French, Paris 1864-1951 Paris)
La Pointe du Décollé, Saint-Briac from Paysages Bretons, 1892
From the only edition of 20 printed in 1914
Woodcut in colors from 10 blocks, Signed in pencil, lower left
Block: 225 x 350 mm; Sheet: 352 x 524 mm
Reference: Sueur-Hermel, Henri Rivière, Entre impressionnisme et japonisme, BNF, 2016. p.84 Planche 8 bis
Provenance: Samuel Josefowitz, Pully
Edgar Degas (French, Paris 1834–1917 Paris)
Mlle. Nathalie Wolkonska, deuxième planche
Etching, 1860-61, on Chine paper appliqué on wove paper support, a fine impression of this rare print, second, final state, with wide margins et with the red stamp Atelier Ed. Degas (faded)
plate: 120 x 88 mm. sheet: 275 x 218 mm.$
Reference: Delteil 8 (1860)/Adhémar 15/Reed et Shapiro 12, ii/ii, edition of c. 9 impressions. The reflective surface and plate deeply impressed suggests a “framed” daguerreotype plate
Provenance:
Vente de l’Atelier Edgar Degas, Paris (Lugt 657, pâle), 22-23 novembre 1918, lot 27. Galerie Paul Prouté, Paris.
Collection Sam Josefowitz, Pully.
Exhibition: Degas et Pissarro: alchimie d’une rencontre, Cabinet cantonal des estampes, Musée Jenisch, Vevey; Musée du Québec; The Israel Museum, Jerusalem; 1998-99, no. 12.
Berthe Morisot (French, Bourges 1841–1895 Paris)
Nu de dos (Nude Seen from the Back), 1889
Drypoint, 13 x 9 cm, on Arches paper with the initial stamp of Berthe Morisot at lower left,
and numbered in pencil “2/25” at lower right
Reference: Janine Bailly-Herzberg “Les Estampes de Berthe Morisot.” Gazette des Beaux-Arts. May-June 1979.
Lugt 388b:
“Berthe Marie Pauline Morisot naquit à Bourges et se maria en 1874 avec Eugène Manet, le frère d’Edouard Manet. Elève de Guichard, Oudinot, Corot, Manet et Aimé Millet, son œuvre entier respire une grande tendresse, sans tomber dans la fadeur. “
(“Berthe Marie Pauline Morisot was born in Bourges and married Eugène Manet, Edouard Manet’s brother, in 1874. A pupil of Guichard, Oudinot, Corot, Manet and Aimé Millet, her entire work exudes great tenderness without ever becoming bland.”)