LOT DETAILS

Materials:

oil on canvas

Measurements:

27.24 in. (69.20 cm.) (height) by 20.08 in. (51.00 cm.) (width)

Markings:

signed with artist's monogram and dated 'MAVD 97' (lower right)

Exhibited:

Paris, Galerie Vollard, Exposition des oeuvres de MM. P. Bonnard, M. Denis, Ibels (et autres), April 1897, no. 12 (titled 'L'Enfant nu'). Paris, Union Centrale des Arts Décoratifs, Pavillon de Marsan, Maurice Denis, April - May 1924, no. 160 (dated '1907'). Paris, Galerie Daniel Malingue, Maîtres impressionistes et Modernes, May - July 1994, no. 4 (illustrated). Lyon, Musée des Beaux-Arts, Maurice Denis, September - December 1994, no. 71, p. 201 (illustrated); this exhibition later travelled to, Cologne, Wallraf-Richartz Museum; Liverpool, Walker Art Gallery and Amsterdam, Van Gogh Museum. Weimar, Schloss Museum, Aufstieg und Fall de Moderne, May - November 1999, no. 59, pp. 128 & 133 (illustrated). Krems, Kunsthalle, Renoir und das Frauenbild des Impressionismus, April - July 2005, pp. 59 & 103 (illustrated). Paris, Malingue S. A., Maurice Denis, Au temps des Nabis, p. 67 (illustrated p. 41).

Literature:

R. Rosenblum (ed.), The Frances and John L. Loeb Collection, London, 1982, no. 47 (illustrated). J.-P. Bouillon, Maurice Denis, Geneva, 1993, p. 77 (illustrated). C. Zappia, Maurice Denis e l'Italia, Perugia, 2001, no. 4 (illustrated). C. Jeancolas, La Peinture des Nabis, Paris, 2002, p. 24 (illustrated). J.-P. Bouillon, Maurice Denis, Le spirituel dans l'art, Paris, 2006, p. 46 (illustrated). G.T.M. Shackelford, The Romance of Modernism: paintings and sculpture from the Scott M. Black Collection, Boston, 2006, p. 57 (illustrated).

Provenance:

Dr. Faber, Copenhagen, by whom acquired from the artist in 1897. Mogens Ballin, Denmark. Galerie Cassirer, Berlin, acquired from the above in 1904 and the sold the same day to Count Kessler, Weimar; his sale, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 16 May 1908, lot 14 (illustrated). Galerie Druet, Paris (no. 4584), acquired at the above sale. Henry Aubry, Paris, by whom acquired from the above, until at least 1924, and thence by descent. Hopkins Gallery, Paris. Acquired from the above by the present owner in 1988.