204. Sleeping Silenus [1898]
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204. Sleeping Silenus [1898]
oil on canvas pasted on cardboard, 63 x 57 cm, 63 Ã 57 cm, signed and dated bottom right, with black, "Nicolae Vermont, (18)98"
Research information
The work took part in the first personal exhibition that Nicolae Vermont organized with Ètefan Luchian in the halls of the Romanian Athenaeum. The work is reproduced in the monography "Nicolae Vermont", E.S.P.L.A., Angela Vrancea, 1957 at cat. 20, under the title "Silen adormit" ("Sleeping Silenus"). The work is reproduced in the monography "Nicolae Vermont", Amelia Pavel, Radu Ionescu, R.P.R. Academy Publishing House, Bucharest, 1958 at cat. 51, p. 67, under the title "Bachus".
PROVENANCE
Er. Paul Asderban's historical collection.
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