Updated 06 March 2023
Currently not on display
Currently not on display
Little Boy Writing
Date | 1920 |
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Materials and Techniques | oil on canvas |
Size(cm) | 37 x 41 |
Inscriptions | Signed and dated lower left: MAV. D. 1920 |
Credit Line | Matsukata Collection |
Standard ref. | M387 |
Category | Paintings |
Collection Number | P.1959-0071 |
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
- 2012
- [Traveling Exhibitions presenting National Art Museum Collections, Fiscal 2012] Modern European Art: From the Collection of the National Museum of Western Art, Ibara Municipal Denchu Art Museum (Okayama), 5 October 2012 - 25 November 2012, 19
- 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.
- 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.