Updated 16 May 2024
Currently not on display
Currently not on display
Hammock
| Date | 1923 |
|---|---|
| Materials and Techniques | oil on canvas |
| Size（cm） | 65.5 x 81.4 |
| Inscriptions | Signed and dated lower right: Lebasque 23 |
| Credit Line | Matsukata Collection |
| Standard ref. | M641 |
| Category | Paintings |
| Collection Number | P.1959-0119 |
Lebasque added Divisionism to a Nabis effect and was an avant-garde painter who used a Pointillist style under the influence of the Post Impressionist Paul Signac. He was also deeply impressed by Pissarro. This work from his later period was deftly created from a bright palette and a tension-filled composition. (Source: The Digital Gallery. 1999-2006)
Provenance
Galeries Georges Petit, Paris; purchased from the above by Kojiro Matsukata, Kobe through Léonce Bénédite, ca. December 1923 (Fr. 6,000) [see letter from Léonce Bénédite to Suzuki & Co., dated 18 December 1923, in the Bibliothèque centrale des musées nationaux, Paris (copy 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
- 1924
- XIVª Esposizione internazionale d'arte della città di Venezia, 0 1924 - 0 1924, cat. p. 181, no. 50
- 1989
- The French Modern Painting, from the National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo, Miyakonojo City Museum, 15 April 1989 - 14 May 1989, cat. no. 23, repr.
- 1989
- Le monde des intimistes : le bonheur de quotidien, The Museum of Modern Art, Saitama, 5 August 1989 - 20 October 1989
Bibliography
- 1924
- XIVª Esposizione internazionale d'arte della città di Venezia, 1924: Catalogo, 2nd ed., [Venezia, 1924], p. 179, cat. no. 50
- 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-174.
- 1979
- The National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo: Catalogue of Paintings. Tokyo, The National Museum of Western Art, 1979, no. 152, repr.
- 1989
- Le monde des intimistes: le bonheur de quotidien (exh. cat.). The Museum of Modern Art, Saitama, ed. [Urawa], The Museum of Modern Art, Saitama, 1989, pp. 39, 107, cat. no. 39, col. repr.
- 1990
- The Old Matsukata Collection. Kobe City Museum, ed. Kobe, "Matsukata Korekushon Ten" Jikkoiinkai, 1990, cat. no. 917.
- 1992
- The French Modern Art, from The National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo (exh. cat.). The National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo, ed. Okinawa, Urasoe Art Museum, 1992, p.36, cat. no. 26, 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. 641, col. repr.