LOT DETAILS

Materials:

oil on canvas

Measurements:

32.13 in. (81.60 cm.) (height) by 23.35 in. (59.30 cm.) (width)

Markings:

signed with monogram and dated 'MAVD 93' (lower left)

Exhibited:

Lyon, Musée des Beaux-Arts; Cologne, Wallraf-Richartz Museum; Liverpool, Walker Art Gallery and Amsterdam, Van Gogh Museum, Maurice Denis, September 1994-September 1995, pp. 188, no. 61 (illustrated in color, p. 189; illustrated in color again on the cover). New York, Achim Moeller Fine Art, The Whitehead Collection: Late 19th and 20th Century French Masters: A Collection in Progress , April-May 1997, p. 102, no. 64 (illustrated in color, pp. 103-104). New York, Achim Moeller Fine Art, From Daumier to Matisse: Selections from the John C. Whitehead Collection , May 2002, pp. 52 and 83, no. 11 (illustrated in color, pp. 52 and 83). New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art; The Art Institute of Chicago and Paris, Musée d'Orsay, Cézanne to Picasso: Ambroise Vollard, Patron of the Avant-Garde , September 2006-September 2007, pp. 87 and 350, no. 68, fig. 87 (illustrated in color, p. 87; illustrated, p. 350)

Literature:

B. Thomson, "Maurice Denis: Cologne and Lyon" in The Burlington Magazine , vol. 137, no. 1103, February 1995, pp. 131-133 (illustrated, p. 132). A. Dumas, "Maurice Denis: Subjective States" in Art in America , April 1995, pp. 74-75 (illustrated in color). A. Delannoy, Maurice Denis , Paris, 2004, no. 16 (illustrated). J.-P. Bouillou, Maurice Denis: Du Spirituel dans l'art , Paris, 2006, p. 25 (illustrated, p. 24). J.-J. Lévêque, Maurice Denis , 2006, p. 110 (illustrated). D. Delouche, Maurice Denis et le Bretague , Paris, 2009, p. 92 (illustrated). Gauguin, Bonnard, Denis: A Russian Taste for French Art , exh. cat., Hermitage, Amsterdam, 2013, p. 93 (illustrated)

Provenance:

Ambroise Vollard, Paris (acquired from the artist, 1901). Private collection, France ( circa 1941-1942). J.L. Collection, Cherbourg, France (by 1994). Acquired through Elizabeth Royer, Paris by Achim Moeller Fine Art on behalf of John C. Whitehead, 1996