MAURICE DENIS (1870-1943)

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Lot 27 | MAURICE DENIS (1870-1943)
MAURICE DENIS (1870-1943)

Portrait de Marthe et de Maurice

stamped with the artist's monogram and dated '96' (lower right)

oil on canvas

26 x 35 ½ in. (66 x 90.2 cm.)

Painted in 1896





Provenance

The artist's estate.

Noële Maurice-Denis Boulet [the artist's daughter].

Jean-Francois Denis, Alençon [the artist's son].

Acquired from the above on 17 March 1989, and thence by descent to the present owners.



Literature

J.-M. Nectoux, Harmonie en bleu et or, Debussy: la musique et les arts, Paris, 2005, p. 80 (illustrated).



Exhibited

Paris, Orangerie des Tuileries, Maurice Denis, June - August 1970, no. 102, p. 47 (illustrated).

Bremen, Kunsthalle, Maurice Denis: Gemälde, Handzeichnungen, Druckgraphik: Meisterwerke des Nachimpressionismus aus der Sammlung Maurice Denis, October - December 1971, no. 64, p. 45; this exhibition later travelled to Zurich, Kunsthaus, January - March 1972 and Copenhagen, Statens Museum for Kunst, April - May 1972.

Paris, Musée Bourdelle, Les Barbus, June - September 1978, no. 130 (illustrated pl. XVI).

Tokyo, National Museum of Western Art, Maurice Denis, September - October 1981, no. 40 (illustrated); this exhibition later travelled to Kyoto, The National Museum of Modern Art, October - December 1981.

Lyon, Musée des Beaux-Arts, Maurice Denis 1870-1943, September - December 1994, no. 66, p. 195 (illustrated); this exhibition later travelled to Cologne, Wallraf-Richartz Museum, January - April 1995; Liverpool, Walker Art Gallery, April - June 1995 and Amsterdam, Van Gogh Museum, July - September 1995.

Lausanne, Musée cantonal des Beaux-Arts, De Vallotton à Dubuffet: Une collection en mouvement, acquisitions, dons, prêts, December 1996 - February 1997.

Le Cannet, Musée Bonnard, Inspirantes inspiratrices: Inspiring Muses, July - November 2018, no. 11, pp. 68, 70 & 72 (illustrated p. 73).

Cleveland, Museum of Art, Private Lives: Home and Family in the Art of the Nabis, Paris, 1889-1900, July - September 2021, no. 62, p. 122 (illustrated); this exhibition later travelled to Portland, Art Museum, October 2021 - January 2022.



Further Details

Claire Denis and Fabienne Stahl will include this work in their forthcoming Denis catalogue raisonné.
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