Ker-Xavier ROUSSEL (1867-1944 )Trees in bloom, circa 1910-1914Pastel on grey paper. Signed lower right. 23 x 33,5 cmExhibition : K.X. Roussel, Galerie Bernheim Jeune, Paris, 27 March - 14 April 1911, n° 37. We would like to thank Nicolas Langlois, Jacques Roussel and Mathias Chivot for confirming the authenticity of this work . We thank Mr Mathias Chivot for the information he provided. This is certainly one of the young peach trees in the orchard of La Jacanette, his house in L'Étang-la-Ville, with its pink flowers, which Roussel would take up again a few years later (1916), in a preparatory composition for the large decorations on the staircase of the Museum of Fine Arts in Winterthur (Spring with a Peach Tree, coll. part., presented in the exhibition Ker-Xavier Roussel, Jardin privé, Jardin rêvé in Giverny, from 27 July to 11 November 2019.