
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
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