Updated 20 February 2023
Currently not on display
Currently not on display
Cemetery of El-Keter
Date | 1921 |
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Materials and Techniques | oil on canvas |
Size(cm) | 42.8 x 65.7 |
Inscriptions | Signed lower left: MAVRICE DENIS |
Credit Line | Matsukata Collection |
Standard ref. | M382 |
Category | Paintings |
Collection Number | P.1959-0066 |
Provenance
Purchased from the artist by Kojiro Matsukata, Kobe, ca. December 1921 (Fr. 8,000) [see records in the Archives Catalogue raisonné Maurice Denis, Saint-Germain-en-Laye and letters dated 10 December and 13 December 1921 from Galerie E. Druet to Léonce Bénédite, in the Bibliothèque centrale des musées nationaux, Paris (copies in NMWA curatorial file)]; 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
- 1921
- Exposition Maurice Denis, Galerie Druet, Paris, 21 November 1921 - 2 December 1921, cat. no. 32.
- 1922
- Exposition nationale coloniale de Marseille/ section officielle des Beaux-Arts, Société des peintres orientalistes français, Marseille, 16 April 1922 - 19 December 1922, cat. no. 270.
- 1923
- Les Peintres orientalistes français. 24e exposition, Galerie Georges Petit, Paris, 0 July 1923 - 0 July 1923, cat. no. 84.
- 1924
- XIVª Esposizione internazionale d'arte della città di Venezia, 0 1924 - 0 1924, cat. p. 179, no. 32
- 1981
- Maurice Denis, National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo, 1 September 1981 - 18 October 1981, cat. no. 78
- 1982
- Exposition coloniales 1906-22, Musée de la Vieille Charité, Marseille, 0 November 1982 - 0 February 1983, cat. no. 3-12, repr.
Bibliography
- 1924
- XIVª Esposizione internazionale d'arte della città di Venezia, 1924: Catalogo, 2nd ed., [Venezia, 1924], p. 177, cat. no. 32
- 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-95.
- 1979
- The National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo: Catalogue of Paintings. Tokyo, The National Museum of Western Art, 1979, no. 84, repr.
- 1990
- The Old Matsukata Collection. Kobe City Museum, ed. Kobe, "Matsukata Korekushon Ten" Jikkoiinkai, 1990, cat. no. 545.
- 2000
- Marion, Vidal-Bué. Alger et ses peintres, 1830-1960. Paris, Paris-Méditerranée, 2000, p. 166, repr.
- 2018
- The Matsukata Collection: Complete Catalogue of the European Art. Kawaguchi, Masako; Jingaoka, Megumi, eds. vol. 1: Paintings, Tokyo, The National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo, 2018, cat. no. 382, col. repr.