Provenance

Purchased from the artist for 1,800 fr. by Galerie E. Druet, Paris, ca. October 1920, stock no. 9266 [see records in the Archives Catalogue raisonné Maurice Denis, Saint-Germain-en-Laye]; purchased from Galerie E. Druet by Kojiro Matsukata, Kobe, ca. December 1921, as “Aco écrivant” [see letters dated 10 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

1923

Spolek vytvarnych umĕlců Mánes. 66. Vystava. Vystava francouzského umění XIX. a XX. Století/ Association des artistes Mánes. 66e exposition. Exposition de l'art français des XIXe et XXe siècles,  Maison municiple, Prague, 0 May 1923 - 0 June 1923,  no. 289, repr.

1981

Maurice Denis, National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo, 1 September 1981 - 18 October 1981, cat. no. 77

1989

, The Museum of Modern Art, Ibaraki, 5 August 1989 - 27 August 1989, Oita Prefectural Art Center, 1-24 September; Iwaki City Art Museum, 7 October-5 November; Asahikawa Museum of Art, 11 November-22 December; The Museum of Modern Art, Shiga, 17 February-25 March 1990

1997

Resonating Love and Life: European Art from National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo, The Niigata Prefectural Museum of Modern Art, Nagaoka, 12 April 1997 - 18 May 1997, cat. no. 30

2016

The Old Matsukata Collection: Reenvisioning the Dream, Kobe City Museum, 17 September 2016 - 27 November 2016, cat. no. 57, col. repr.

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-100.

1979

The National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo: Catalogue of Paintings. Tokyo, The National Museum of Western Art, 1979, no. 89, repr.

1989

Meisaku ni Miru Sekai no Kodomo Tachi (exh. cat.). The Japan Association of Art Museums, ed. [Tokyo], The Japan Association of Art Museums, 1989, pp. 73, 90, 105, cat. no. 3, col. repr.

1990

The Old Matsukata Collection. Kobe City Museum, ed. Kobe, "Matsukata Korekushon Ten" Jikkoiinkai, 1990, cat. no. 550.

2016

The Old Matsukata Collection: Reenvisioning the Dream (exh. cat.). Kobe City Museum, ed. [Kobe], Executive Committee of the Old Matsukata Collection, 2016, pp. 98, 262, cat. no. 57, col. 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. 387, col. repr.

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