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リモージュ, 1861年 - パリ, 1909年

Paul Ranson

Limoges, 1861 - Paris, 1909

ジギタリス Digitales

制作年	1899年
材質・技法・形状	テンペラ、カンヴァス
寸法（cm）	150 x 70
署名・年記	右下に署名・年記: P. Ranson 99.
Standard ref.	Bitker/Genty 426
分類	絵画
所蔵番号	P.2005-0001

　19世紀末のナビ派の一員として活躍したランソンは、同僚のドニやボナール、ヴュイヤールと同様、装飾的な画面を得意としました。タイトルのジギタリスとは、前景右手に伸びる釣鐘状のたくさんの薄紫の花をつけた植物です。掛け軸にも似た縦長の画面に描かれたこの作品は、いわゆる当時の日本趣味（ジャポニスム）を反映していますが、同時に、装飾性・平面性など、画面の二次元的特性を重視したナビ派の造形原理に基づいています。実現はされなかったもののタピスリー（綴れ織）のための下絵として制作されたという経緯からみても、中世の「花散らし紋様（ミルフルール）」のタピスリーを強く意識して作画されていることは明らかです、また、曲線を多用した表現は、アール・ヌーヴォーの工芸に直結しています。（出典: 展示室作品解説パネル）

来歴

Sale, Drouot, 7 June 1909, Mes. Lair et Dubreuil, sale posthume de Paul Ranson, no. 66, titre 《Les Digitales》, 80frs., Paris; sale, hôtel des ventes, 25 October 1987, 《Les Digitales》 ou 《Jeune femme dans un jardin》, Enghien; New York, collection Barry Friedman, 1987; Galerie Armonie, 1989, Nantes; sale Christie's 3 April 1990, Impressionist and Modern Paintings and Sculptures, no. 289 a. p. 79, London; Galerie Ergastère, Paris; Purchased by the NMWA, 2005.

展覧会歴

1901: Exposition de la Société nationale des Beaux-Arts, Grand Palais, Paris, 1901年4月2日-1901年6月30日, no. 319 (Carton de tapisserie)
1967: Paul Ranson, première rètrospective, Galleria del Levante, München, 1967年6月0日-0年0月0日, no. 4 (Femme aux fleurs)
1983: The Lines of Art Nouveau, Dayton Art Institute, Dayton, OH, 1983年10月25日-1984年1月29日, no. 14
1990: ゴーギャンとナビ派の仲間たち展, パルテノン多摩, 東京, 1990年10月31日-1990年12月2日, 新潟大和, 新潟, 1991年1月2日 - 1991年1月15日, ナビオ美術館, 大阪, 1991年3月8日 - 1991年4月7日, cat. no. 36
1997: Paul Élie Ranson: du symbolisme à l'art nouveau, Musée départemental Maurice Denis "Le Prieuré", Saint-Germain-en-Laye, 1997年10月25日-1998年1月25日, cat. no. 95
2022: 自然と人のダイアローグ　フリードリヒ、モネ、ゴッホからリヒターまで：国立西洋美術館リニューアルオープン記念, 国立西洋美術館, 2022年6月4日-2022年9月11日, cat. no. 49

文献歴

1901: Jaques, G. M. Petit appartements. L'Art Décoratitif. 1901
1954: Humbert, Agnes. Les Nabis et leurs époque, 1888-1900. Genève, 1954, p. 91.
1967: Waldberg, Patrick. Paul Ranson: prima mostra retrospettiva, Galleria del Levante, München Juni 1967. Milano/ Roma/ München, Galleria del Levante, 1967, cat. no. 4 (titled Femme aux fleurs), repr.
1967: Barilli, Renato. Il simbolismo della pittura francese del ottocento. Milan, 1967 , no. 36, p. 62.
1969: Julian, Phillipe. Dreamers of Decadance. Paris, 1969, p. 206.
1975: Redon, Seurat and the Symbolists. New York, Lamplight Pub, 1975 (Lamplight collection of modern art), p. 36 (titled Girl with flowers)
1976: Interenational Herald Tribune. 19-20 June 1976, cover (titled Jeune Femme aux digitales), repr.
1978: Mauner, George L. The Nabis and their History and their Art, 1888-1896. New York, 1978 , fig. 115.
1987: Joron-Derem, Christophe. Les Symbolistes à l'honneur. Beaux-Arts Magazine. no. 51, 1987, pp. 32-33, repr.
1992: Lévy-Gormezano, Francine. Paul Elie Ranson, Oeuvres textiles et panneaux décoratifs, 1892-99. Master's thesis. Universitè Paris X-Nanterre, 1992
1993: Galerie l'Ergastère. Aux cimaises d'un collectionneur. Connaissance des Arts. no. 500, 1993, pp. 21-24, repr.
1997: Lévy-Gormezano, Francine. "Le Digitalis ou Jeune femme aux digitales ou Jeune femme dans un jardin". Paul Elie Ranson: du symbolisme à l'art nouveau (exh. cat.). Musée départemental Maurice Denis "Le Prieuré", Saint-Germain-en-Laye, 25 October 1997 - 25 January 1998, Paris, Somogy, c1997, cat. no. 95, repr.
1999: Bitker, Brigitte Ranson; Genty, Gilles. Paul Ranson, 1861-1909: catalogue raisonné, japonisme, symbolisme, art nouveau. Paris, Somogy éditions d'art, c1999, cat. no. 426, repr.
2006: 国立西洋美術館名作選. 東京, 国立西洋美術館; 東京, 西洋美術振興財団, 2006, no. 106, col. repr.
2007: 国立西洋美術館年報. No. 40 (Apr. 2005-Mar. 2006), 2007, 高橋明也. 新収作品. pp. 9-10, 新収作品一覧. p. 63, repr.
2009: Masterpieces of The National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo. Tokyo, The National Museum of Western Art; Tokyo, The Western Art Foundation, 2009, no. 106, col. repr.
2013: 国立西洋美術館名作選. 東京, 西洋美術振興財団, 2013, no. 108, col. repr.
2022: 自然と人のダイアローグ：フリードリヒ、モネ、ゴッホからリヒターまで (exh. cat.). 陳岡めぐみ; 新藤淳; 読売新聞東京本社事業局ミュージアム事業部編集. 東京, 国立西洋美術館; 読売新聞社; NHK; NHKプロモーション, 2022, pp. 114, 258, cat. no. 49, col. repr.

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On Display

Permanent collection

Paul Ranson

Limoges, 1861 - Paris, 1909

Digitales

Date	1899
Materials and Techniques	tempera on canvas
Size（cm）	150 x 70
Inscriptions	Signed and dated lower right: P. Ranson 99.
Standard ref.	Bitker/Genty 426
Category	Paintings
Collection Number	P.2005-0001

A woman stands in the forest, surrounded by plants and trees. The tall, vertically arranged canvas has been created in an extremely decorative composition that fully represents the characteristics of its Nabis painter Ranson. The four sides of the canvas are framed by decorative borders reminiscent of tapestries, and it can be imagined that this painting was originally a preparatory work for a tapestry project. The Nabis painters were highly conscious of the planar nature of paintings, and the inherent decorativeness of such planar images, and they considered medieval period and later tapestries to be one of the best models in the creation of their works. Digitalis (foxglove), the plant with purplish red bell-shaped blossoms, grows in large form across the foreground. This plant's leaves had been known since antiquity as a tonic for the heart. The twining movement of this plant burgeoning with life is a realization of the Nabis' decorative aesthetic. On the one hand, as a result of the Nabis' study of the decorative arts both of Japan and of Europe's medieval period, they used a large number of planar elements and curved lines which eventually resulted in the Art Nouveau style. On the other hand, they also created a symbolic type of expression intimately linked to the fin-de-siècle symbolism of the late 19th century. The fragrance of the blossom sniffed by the woman in the painting, along with its pollen and plant-life mysteries, is somehow intimately linked to the life force within the woman herself. In 1895 the Maison de l'Art Nouveau of Siegfried Bing was set up on rue de Provence in Paris. Ranson's wall mural series of seven works for the dining room were created as part of the refitting and redecoration of the shop. A major work from that series, Seven Women Harvesting, was acquired by the Niigata Prefectural Museum of Modern Art in 1992. Ranson also created vitraux and tapestries. It was during this Maison de l'Art Nouveau period that Ranson's inclination towards decorative arts, particularly tapestries, increased and he became involved in tapestry production in competition with his friends Maillol and Rippl-Ronai. Thus said, however, there are only some ten extant tapestries by Ranson remaining today, and the majority of his tapestry works remain solely in cartoon form. It is possible that this work is related to a tapestry project that was never actually realized. (Source: Masterpieces of the National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo, 2009, cat. no. 106)

Provenance

Exhibition History

1901: Exposition de la Société nationale des Beaux-Arts, Grand Palais, Paris, 2 April 1901 - 30 June 1901, no. 319 (Carton de tapisserie)
1967: Paul Ranson, première rètrospective, Galleria del Levante, München, 0 June 1967 - 0 0, no. 4 (Femme aux fleurs)
1983: The Lines of Art Nouveau, Dayton Art Institute, Dayton, OH, 25 October 1983 - 29 January 1984, no. 14
1990: Gauguin et les Nabis, Parthenon Tama, Tokyo, 31 October 1990 - 2 December 1990, Niigata Daiwa, Niigata, 2 January 1991 - 15 January 1991, Navio Museum of Art, Osaka, 8 March 1991- 7 April 1991, cat. no. 36
1997: Paul Élie Ranson: du symbolisme à l'art nouveau, Musée départemental Maurice Denis "Le Prieuré", Saint-Germain-en-Laye, 25 October 1997 - 25 January 1998, cat. no. 95
2022: In Dialogue with Nature - from Friedrich, Monet and Van Gogh to Richter, The National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo, 4 June 2022 - 11 September 2022, cat. no. 49

Bibliography

1901: Jaques, G. M. Petit appartements. L'Art Décoratitif. 1901
1954: Humbert, Agnes. Les Nabis et leurs époque, 1888-1900. Genève, 1954, p. 91.
1967: Waldberg, Patrick. Paul Ranson: prima mostra retrospettiva, Galleria del Levante, München Juni 1967. Milano/ Roma/ München, Galleria del Levante, 1967, cat. no. 4 (titled Femme aux fleurs), repr.
1967: Barilli, Renato. Il simbolismo della pittura francese del ottocento. Milan, 1967 , no. 36, p. 62.
1969: Julian, Phillipe. Dreamers of Decadance. Paris, 1969, p. 206.
1975: Redon, Seurat and the Symbolists. New York, Lamplight Pub, 1975 (Lamplight collection of modern art), p. 36 (titled Girl with flowers)
1976: Interenational Herald Tribune. 19-20 June 1976, 表紙 (titled Jeune Femme aux digitales), repr.
1978: Mauner, George L. The Nabis and their History and their Art, 1888-1896. New York, 1978 , fig. 115.
1987: Joron-Derem, Christophe. Les Symbolistes à l'honneur. Beaux-Arts Magazine. no. 51, 1987, pp. 32-33, repr.
1992: Lévy-Gormezano, Francine. Paul Elie Ranson, Oeuvres textiles et panneaux décoratifs, 1892-99. Master's thesis. Universitè Paris X-Nanterre, 1992
1993: Galerie l'Ergastère. Aux cimaises d'un collectionneur. Connaissance des Arts. no. 500, 1993, pp. 21-24, repr.
1997: Lévy-Gormezano, Francine. "Le Digitalis ou Jeune femme aux digitales ou Jeune femme dans un jardin". Paul Elie Ranson: du symbolisme à l'art nouveau (exh. cat.). Musée départemental Maurice Denis "Le Prieuré", Saint-Germain-en-Laye, 25 October 1997 - 25 January 1998, Paris, Somogy, c1997, cat. no. 95, repr.
1999: Bitker, Brigitte Ranson; Genty, Gilles. Paul Ranson, 1861-1909: catalogue raisonné, japonisme, symbolisme, art nouveau. Paris, Somogy éditions d'art, c1999, cat. no. 426, repr.
2006: Masterpieces of The National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo. Tokyo, The National Museum of Western Art; Tokyo, The Western Art Foundation, 2006 (Japanese, preface in Japanese and English), no. 106, col. repr.
2007: Annual bulletin of the National Museum of Western Art. No. 40 (Apr. 2005-Mar. 2006), 2007, Takahashi, Akiya. New Acquisitions. pp. 9-10, List of New Acquisitions. p. 63, repr.
2009: Masterpieces of The National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo. Tokyo, The National Museum of Western Art; Tokyo, The Western Art Foundation, 2009, no. 106, col. repr.
2013: Masterpieces: The National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo. Tokyo, The Western Art Foundation, 2013 (Japanese, preface in Japanese and English), no. 108, col. repr.
2022: In Dialogue with Nature: from Friedrich, Monet and Van Gogh to Richter (exh. cat.). Jingaoka, Megumi; Shinfuji, Atsushi; Yomiuri Shimbun, Museum Exhibition Department, eds. Tokyo, The National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo; Yomiuri Shimbun; NHK; NHK Promotions, 2022, pp. 114, 258, cat. no. 49, col. repr.

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