Gustav Adolf MOSSA (Nice, 1883 - 1971) The King of Gazna / Paradise and Peri circa 1913 Pen and black ink on tracing paper Titled 'LE ROI DE GAZNA / PARADIS ET PERI' lower left and captioned 'SCHUMANN / TH MOORE' lower right, various annotations within the drawing Annotated in the motif 'Grouillement de cadavre' (Swarming of corpses) (Folding) 28 x 46 cm Provenance: Estate of Charlotte-Andrée Naudin-Mossa ; Collection Nicolette Mossa-Bourdin ; Anonymous sale; Paris, Hôtel Drouot, Me Renaud, 14 June 1985, no. 106; Private collection, Paris; Anonymous sale; Paris, Artcurial, 26 September 2017, no. 517 ; Private collection, Brussels Exhibitions: 'Gustav Adolf Mossa, l'oeuvre symboliste, 1903-1918', Paris, pavillon des arts, 19 June - 27 September 1992, Nice, galerie des Ponchettes et galerie Mossa, 22 January - 18 April 1993, p. 226-227, n° 135 Bibliography: Sylvie Lombart, Jean-Roger Soubiran, 'Gustav Adolf Mossa, Catalogue Raisonné des œuvres "symbolistes"', Paris, 2010, p. 322, mentioned and reproduced in the entry for no. A249 This drawing is a preparation for one of the six watercolours illustrating Schumann's oratorio after Thomas Moore, "Le Paradis et la Péri", exhibited as number 514 in this sale in 1913 at the Galerie Georges Petit and now in the Musée des Beaux-Arts in Nice. Gustav Adolf MOSSA (Nice, 1883 - 1971) 28 x 46 cm