Lot 67
  • 67

Maurice Denis

Estimate
30,000 - 40,000 EUR
bidding is closed

Description

  • Maurice Denis
  • Maternité ensoleillée
  • signed MAVD and dated 1915 (lower left)
  • oil on cardboard
  • 19 3/4 x 15 3/4 in.

Provenance

René des Granges (purchased directly from the artist in 1915)
Thence by descent to the present owner

Condition

The board is stable. There are four original mounting framing nails to all four corners. There appears to be no signs of retouching under UV light. There are a few tiny fly spots in places. There are some pigment flacking at the upper right corner and a small hairline fracture to the board at the upper right corner. This work is in very good original condition.
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Catalogue Note

This work is a portrait of the artist’s son Dominique, born in 1909 and one of his sisters, probably Anne-Marie, in the garden of the artist’s house Le Prieuré, which then became the Musée départemental Maurice Denis in Saint-Germain-en-Laye.