The Spring (La source)

c. 1900, Ker-Xavier Roussel (1867 - 1944)

lithograph in five colours on China paper, 38.6 cm x 49.3 cm
Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam (Vincent van Gogh Foundation)

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Object data

Object number
p1214V2000
Dimensions
38.6 cm x 49.3 cm, 32 cm x 41.6 cm
Catalogue raisonné
Salomon 20

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number
[R?]. V. 42
number
59/17

Literature

  • Alain [= Emile A. Chartier]; suivie d'un essai de catalogue par Jacques Salomon, Introduction à l'oeuvre gravé de K. X. Roussel, 1968, no. 20
  • Anisabelle Berès et Michel Arveiller, Les peintres graveurs, 1890-1900, 2002
  • ed. by Pat Gilmour, Lasting Impressions : lithography as art, cop. 1988, p. 149
  • ed. by Patricia Eckert Boyer ; with essays Patricia Eckert Boyer and Elizabeth Prelinger, The Nabis and the Parisian Avant-Garde, cop. 1988, p. 171
  • [Hans-Heinrich Grosse-Brockhoff ... [et al.], Bildwelten des Symbolismus, 1985, p. 52-60
  • Robert Theodore Wang, The graphic art of the Nabis, 1888-1900, 1986, p. 166-168
  • ed. Rebecca A. Rabinow ; Douglas W. Druick, Ann Dumas ... [et al.], Cézanne to Picasso : Ambroise Vollard, patron of the Avant-Garde, 2006, p. 189-196