| Brown Inventory ID: |
none on file |
| Artist: | Melchers, Gari |
| Nationality: | American |
| Artist Dates: | 1860-1932 |
| Title: | Fairy Story |
| Medium: | brown paper, in body color |
| Hawkins Catalog Entry: | Yes, included in 1913 catalog |
| Hawkins Artist: | MELCHERS, GARI |
| Hawkins Dates: | Living Artist |
| Hawkins Note: | Born in Detroit, trained in Germany and Paris, worked in America, and lives in Holland and Germany. |
| Hawkins Title: | No. 97. FAIRY STORY |
| Description: | A girl in an orange terra-cotta cape seated on the right, profile left, looking down. At her knee, looking up at her, stands a little boy in a rich blue tunic and white sleeves. Beyond them a parapet; on the top a lemon-yellow vase with pinks; a painted conventional landscape background. Signed " Gari Melchers." Typical of the modern German School, halfway between the Impressionists and the Post-Impressionists. This picture and the following are good illustrations of pictorial conditions observed (see under Leclerq, No. 95) |
| References: | Correspondence with RCH from 1905-1919 |
| Notes: | No file |
| Christies ID: | Yes |
| Catalog Text: | MELCHERS, GARI Living Artist Born in Detroit, trained in Germany and Paris, worked in America, and lives in Holland and Germany. A girl in an orange terra-cotta cape seated on the right, profile left, looking down. At her knee, looking up at her, stands a little boy in a rich blue tunic and white sleeves. Beyond them a parapet; on the top a lemon-yellow vase with pinks; a painted conventional landscape background. Signed " Gari Melchers." Typical of the modern German School, halfway between the Impressionists and the Post-Impressionists. This picture and the following are good illustrations of pictorial conditions observed (see under Leclerq, No. 95) |
| Library: | Annmary Brown |
| Room: | Middle Gallery |
| Image: | ab97.jpg |