MAURICE DENIS (1870-1943) - photo 1
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MAURICE DENIS (1870-1943)

Lot 33
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Lot 33 | MAURICE DENIS (1870-1943)
Estimate value
£ 600 000 – 900 000
MAURICE DENIS (1870-1943)
Avril ou Les anémones
signed and dated ‘MAVDENIS 91’ (lower right); inscribed ‘AVRIL’ (upper left)
oil on canvas
26 3/8 x 31 ¼ in. (67 x 79.5 cm.)
Painted in 1891




Provenance

Arsène Alexandre, Paris, by whom acquired directly from the artist in 1891; his sale, Paris, Galerie Georges Petit, 18-19 May 1903, lot 25.
Maurice Fabre, Narbonne & Paris, by whom acquired at the above sale.
Josse & Gaston Bernheim, Paris.
Galerie Bernheim-Jeune, Paris, by whom acquired from the above in 1908.
Léonce Rosenberg, Paris, by whom acquired from the above on 24 November 1910.
Adolphe Stoclet, Brussels, circa 1910-1911.
Raymonde Feron (née Stoclet), Brussels, by descent from the above and until at least 1962.
Private collection, Belgium.
C.G. Boerner, New York.
Acquired from the above on 8 February 2007, and thence by descent to the present owner.



Literature

J. Meier-Graefe, Entwicklungsgeschichte der modernen Kunst, vol. I, Stuttgart, 1904, p. 361.
P. Jamot, Maurice Denis, Paris, 1945, p. 44.
U. Perruchi-Petri, Die Nabis und Japan: Das Frühwerk von Bonnard, Vuillard und Denis, Munich, 1976, pp. 169 & 170 (illustrated fig. 113, p. 168).
J.-P. Bouillon, 'Le moment symboliste' in Revue de l’Art, no. 96, 1992, p. 7 (illustrated on the cover).
A. Gruson, ‘Le Saint-Germain de Maurice Denis’ in Saint-Germain Magazine, December 1992, no. 229, p. 35 (illustrated).
Exh. cat., Maurice Denis, Ghent, 1994, p. 119 (illustrated).
A. Terrasse, Maurice Denis, Lausanne, 1995, pp. 30, 50 & 52
‘Eclosion d’un art nouveau: Maurice Denis, pureté de la ligne et pureté des sentiments’ in Le Nouvelliste, Supplement, 7 December 2010, p. 12 (illustrated).



Exhibited

Paris, Galerie Bernheim-Jeune, Exposition Maurice Denis, April 1907 (ex. cat).
Zurich, Künstlerhaus, Französische Impressionisten VIII. Serie, October - November 1908, no. 48.
Düsseldorf, Städtischen Kunstpalast, Ausstellung des Sonderbundes Westdeutscher Kunstfreunde und Künstler, July - October 1910, no. 29, p. 20 (illustrated).
Paris, Petit Palais, Les maîtres de l’art indépendant, 1895-1937, June - October 1937, no. 24, p. 52.
Brussels, Musées royaux des Beaux-Arts de Belgique, Le groupe des XX et son temps, February - April 1962, no. 23; this exhibition later travelled to Otterlo, Kröller-Müller Museum, April - June 1962.
Zurich, Kunsthaus, Nabis, 1888-1900, Bonnard, Vuillard, Maurice Denis, Vallotton..., May - August 1993, no. 33, p. 144 (illustrated p. 145); this exhibition later travelled to Paris, Galeries nationales du Grand Palais, September 1993 - January 1994.
Paris, Musée d’Orsay, Maurice Denis, October 2006 - January 2007, no. 19, p. 134 (illustrated p. 135); this exhibition later travelled to Montreal, Musée des beaux-arts, February - May 2007 and Rovereto, Museo di arte moderna e contemporanea, June - September 2007.
Zug, Kunsthaus, Das Sehen sehen, Neoimpressionismus und moderne, Signac bis Eliasson, February - June 2008, p. 218 (illustrated p. 109).
Martigny, Fondation Pierre Gianadda, de Renoir à Sam Szafran, Parcours d’un collectionneur, December 2010 - June 2011, no. 29, pp. 72 & 267 (illustrated p. 73).
Amsterdam, Van Gogh Museum, Snapshot. Painters and Photographers, Bonnard to Vuillard, October 2011 - January 2012, no. 82, pp. 123 & 224 (illustrated p. 123).
Giverny, Musée des Impressionnismes, Maurice Denis, L'Éternel printemps, April - July 2012, no. 11, p. 75 (illustrated).
Venice, Peggy Guggenheim Collection, The Avant-Gardes of Fin-de-Siècle Paris: Signac, Bonnard, Redon, and their contemporaries, September 2013 - January 2014 (illustrated p. 15).
Bilbao, Guggenheim Museum, Fin-de Siècle, May - September 2017, p. 19; this exhibition later travelled to Columbus, Museum of Art, October 2017 - January 2018.
Montreal, Musée des beaux-arts, Paris au temps du post impressionnisme, Signac et les Indépendants, March - September 2020, no. 317, p. 210 (illustrated p. 209).
Lausanne, Musée Cantonal des Beaux-Arts, Maurice Denis, Amour, February - May 2021, no. 16, p. 93 (illustrated p. 92).



Further Details

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