Self-Portrait as a Chimera
Sarah Bernhardt · c. 1880
Provenance
Ownership history
- Private collection, France, by 2012; sold Piasa Auction, Paris, June 29, 2012, lot 242, to Robert Zehil Gallery, Monaco; private collection, New York, NY, by 2015; consigned to Colnaghi, Ltd, London, 2020; sold to the Art Institute of Chicago, 2020.
Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.
Exhibitions
Exhibition history
- Chicago, Wrightwood 659, The First Homosexuals: The Birth of a New Identity, 1869-1939, May 1–Aug. 1, 2025, no cat. no.
Literature
Published references
- Catherine Gonnard and Tirza True Latimer, "Unbecomnig Women: Becoming Lesbians in the Arts, 1850s–1920s France," in Jonathan D. Katz with Johnny Willis, The First Homosexuals: The Birth of a New Identity 1869–1939, exh. cat. (New York: Monacelli Press, 2025), 57 (ill.), 82.
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