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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Mar 2, 2017 | Sotheby's | London | Impressionist & Modern Art Day Sale | 141 | $****** - ****** | L'ESSAYAGE |
paintings
58.5 x 43 cm (23.03 x 16.93 in)
oil on paper laid down on board
stamped with the artist’s monogram (lower right)
Family of the Artist, France (by descent)
Luc Denis, Paris (by descent from the above by 2009)
Acquired from the above by the present owner
Paris, Musée d'Art Moderne, Maurice Denis, ses maîtres, ses amis, ses élèves, 1945-46
Nice, Union Méditerranéenne pour l’Art Moderne, La Belle Époque, 1950, no. 104
Bern, Kunsthalle, Die Maler der Revue Blanche, Toulouse Lautrec und die Nabis, 1951, no. 93
Neuss, Clemens-Sels Museum, Maurice Denis, 1954, no. 12
Paris, Musée National d’Art Moderne, Bonnard, Vuillard et les Nabis, 1955, no. 104
Copenhagen, Winkel & Magnussen Gallery, Gauguin et son école, 1956, no. 56
Paris, Pontoise & Auvers-sur-Oise, Art Sacré, 1960, no. 84
Paris, Galerie des Beaux-Arts, Maurice Denis, 1963, no. 41
Albi, Musée Toulouse Lautrec, Maurice Denis, 1963, no. 66, illustrated in the catalogue (with incorrect dimensions)
Mannheim, Kunsthalle, Die Nabis und ihre Freunde, 1963-64, no. 91, illustrated in the catalogue
London, Wildenstein Gallery, Maurice Denis, 1964
Paris, Orangerie des Tuileries, Maurice Denis, 1970, no. 169, illustrated in the catalogue (with incorrect dimensions)
Bremen, Kunsthalle; Zurich, Kunsthaus & Copenhagen, Statens Museum for Kunst, Maurice Denis, 1971-72, no. 84, illustrated in the catalogue
Pont-Aven, Musée de l’Hôtel de Ville, Maurice Denis, 1979, no. 45, illustrated in the catalogue (with incorrect dimensions)
Tokyo, National Museum of Western Art & Kyoto, National Museum of Modern Art, Maurice Denis, 1981, no. 57, illustrated in the catalogue
Paris, Galerie Huguette Berès, Maurice Denis, 1992, no. 50, illustrated in the catalogue
Lyon, Musée des Beaux-Arts; Cologne, Wallraf-Richartz Museum; Liverpool, Walker Art Gallery & Amsterdam, Van Gogh Museum, Maurice Denis 1870-1943, 1994-95, no. 74, illustrated in colour in the catalogue
Florence, Palazzo Corsini, Il tempo dei Nabis, 1998, no. 67, illustrated in the catalogue
Avignon, Musée Angladon, L’Art et la Mode 1900: Paris-Avignon, 2000
Ourense, Centro Social Caixanova, Los nabis. Profetas de la modernidad, 2007, illustrated in the catalogue
Castellon, Sala Bancaja San Miguel, Bancaixa Fundació Caixa Castelló, Maurice Denis y los nabis, profetas del arte moderno, 2008, n.n., illustrated in the catalogue
Saint-Germain-en-Laye, Musée Jardin-Maurice Denis, 2009 (on loan)
Lodève, Musée de Lodève, De Gauguin aux Nabis. Le Droit de tout oser, 2010, no. 142, illustrated in the catalogue
Arthur Ellridge, Gauguin et les Nabis, Paris, 1993, illustrated in colour p. 175
Jean-Jacques Lévêque, Maurice Denis 1870-1943, Le Peintre de l'âme, Paris, 2006, n.n., illustrated in colour p. 31
stamped with the artist’s monogram (lower right)
oil on paper laid down on board
58.5 by 43cm., 23 by 16 7/8 in.
Painted circa 1898.
