Property from a Distinguished Private Collection, Japan
Maurice Denis
L'Oratorio pour 'L'Éternel Printemps'
Estimate
150,000 - 250,000 USD
Lot Details
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Property from a Distinguished Private Collection, Japan
Maurice Denis
1870 - 1943
L'Oratorio pour 'L'Éternel Printemps'
signed MAV-D- and dated 1904 (lower left)
oil on joined paper laid down on canvas
56 ⅝ by 79 ⅛ in.
142 by 201 cm.
Executed in 1904.
Claire Denis and Fabienne Stahl will include this work in their forthcoming Denis catalogue raisonné.
Ambroise Vollard, Paris (acquired directly from the artist in 1906 and until at least 1924)
Philippe Reichenbach, Paris
Walter P. Chrysler Jr., New York
Galerie Stein
Sotheby's, New York, 12 June 1980, lot 129 (consigned by the above)
Gloria Vanderbilt, New York (acquired at the above sale)
Sotheby's, New York, 26 February 1992, lot 15 (consigned by the above)
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner
Paris, Musée des arts décoratifs, Exposition Maurice Denis, 1888-1924, 1924, no. 332, p. 23
Tokyo Metropolitan Teien Art Museum, Masterpieces from the Ise Collection, 1999, no. 5, p. 16, illustrated in color; p. 17, illustrated in color on the cover (titled Procession de fête-Dieu)
Suzanne Barazzetti-Demoulin, Maurice Denis, 1945, pp. 149-50, illustration of the final version; p. 160
Paul Jamot, Maurice Denis, Paris, 1945, p. 22, illustration of the final version; p. 15
Exh. Cat., Paris, Musée d'Orsay; Montreal, Musée des Beaux Arts and Rovereto, Italy, Museo di Arte Moderna, Maurice Denis, 2007, p. 56, fig. 35, illustration of the final version
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