Updated 15 February 2024
Currently not on display
Currently not on display
Dancing Man
Date | 19 C |
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Materials and Techniques | charcoal on paper |
Size(cm) | 91.0 x 44.5 |
Inscriptions | Signed and inscribed lower left: MAVRICE DENIS Etude pour le theatre |
Credit Line | Matsukata Collection |
Standard ref. | M1523 |
Category | Drawings |
Collection Number | D.1959-0014 |
Provenance
Purchased from artist by Kojiro Matsukata, Kobe, ca. December 1921, as ‘Vingt dessins’ (Fr. 20,000 for 20 drawings) [see several letters among Léonce Bénédite, Galerie E. Druet and Suzuki & Co., December 1921, in Bibliothèque centrale des musées nationaux, Paris, copies in NMWA curatorial files]; sequestered by French government, 1944; vested in French government under San Francisco Peace Treaty, 1952; transferred from French to Japanese government, 23 January 1959; entered into NMWA, April 1959.
Exhibition History
- 2016
- [Prints and Drawings Exhibition] The Drawings of Maurice Denis: Traces of Inspiration on Paper, National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo, Prints and Drawings Gallery, 15 October 2016 - 15 January 2017, cat. no. 9
- 2022
- Renoir—Monet—Gauguin: Images of a Floating World: the Collections of Kōjirō Matsukata and Karl Ernst Osthaus, Museum Folkwang, 6 February 2022 - 15 May 2022
Bibliography
- 1961
- Catalogue du Musée National d'Art Occidental, Tokyo. Tokyo, The National Museum of Western Art, 1961 (Préface and Catalogue Général in Japanese and French), P-111.
- 1990
- The Old Matsukata Collection. Kobe City Museum, ed. Kobe, "Matsukata Korekushon Ten" Jikkoiinkai, 1990, cat. no. 561.
- 2017
- Hakamata, Hiroyo. Catalogue of the Maurice Denis Drawings in the NMWA Collection. Journal of the National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo. No. 21, 2017, pp. 35-56, [with English Abstract], cat. no. 13.
- 2019
- The Matsukata Collection: Complete Catalogue of the European Art. Kawaguchi, Masako; Jingaoka, Megumi, eds. vol. 2: Sculpture, Drawings, Prints and Decorative Arts and Other Works, Tokyo, The National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo, 2019, cat. no. 1523, col. repr.
- 2022
- Renoir—Monet—Gauguin: Images of a Floating World: the Collections of Kōjirō Matsukata and Karl Ernst Osthaus (exh.cat.). Engel, Nadine; Herlemann, Rebecca, eds. Berlin, Hatje Cantz, [2022], pp. 248, 364, col. repr.