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Maurice Denis

Le Char

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October 17, 02:14 PM GMT

Estimate

20,000 - 30,000 GBP

Lot Details

Description

Maurice Denis

1870 - 1943

Le Char

stamped with the artist's monogram MAVD (lower right)

oil canvas

158.3 by 96.8 cm. 62⅜ by 38⅛ in.

Framed: 164.5 by 103.2 cm. 64¾ by 40⅝ in.

Executed in 1914.


To be included in the forthcoming Maurice Denis catalogue raisonné being prepared by Claire Denis and Fabienne Stahl.

Galerie Druet, Paris (acquired directly from the artist in 1914 and until 1919)

Marcel Kapferer, Paris

Mes Loudmer et Poulain Paris, 27-28 May 1975, lot 170

Private Collection, Paris (acquired in the 1980s)

Private Collection (acquired by descent from the above)

Christie's Paris, 31 March 2016, lot 263

Acquired at the above by the present owner

Paris, Galeries Nationales du Grand Palais, Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts: Salon de 1914, 1914, no. 340, listed

San Francisco, Palace of Fine Arts, Panama-Pacific International Exposition, 1915, no. 314 F

Chicago, The Art Institute of Chicago; Saint Louis, City Art Museum; Buffalo, Albright Art Gallery, Youngstown, Mahoning Institute of Art; Détroit, Detroit Museum of Art; Toledo, The Toledo Museum of Art; Minneapolis, The Minneapolis Institute of Art & New York, Brooklyn Museum; Exhibition of Contemporary French and Belgian Art from the Panama-Pacific International Exposition, 1915-18, nos. 63, 74 (titled Nausicaa), 87, 87, 77, 77, 76 and 70

Pittsburgh, Carnegie Institute, Founder’s Day Exhibition: French paintings from the Museum of the Luxembourg, and other works shown at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition, 1916, no. 268