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Currently not on display

Pierre-Albert Marquet

Bordeaux, 1875 - Paris, 1947

Sitting Nude

Date 1912
Materials and Techniques oil on canvas
Size(cm) 73 x 60.5
Inscriptions Signed and dated lower left: Marquet / 12
Credit Line Matsukata Collection
Standard ref. M705
Category Paintings
Collection Number P.1959-0125

Provenance

Galerie E. Druet, Paris, no. 6794 [gallery label on the reverse]; purchased from the above by Kojiro Matsukata, Kobe, ca. December 1921 [see letter from Galerie E. Druet to Léonce Bénédite, dated 13 December 1921, 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

1983
Modern Nude Paintings: 1880-1980, The National Museum of Art, Osaka, 7 October 1983 - 4 December 1983
1989
The Old Matsukata Collection, Kobe City Museum, 14 September 1989 - 26 November 1989, cat. no. 56, col. repr.
1997
Expressiveness of Materials, National Museum of Art, Osaka, 17 April 1997 - 22 June 1997, cat. no. 48
2015
NO MUSEUM, NO LIFE?: Art-Museum Encyclopedia to Come: From the Collections of the National Museums of Art, The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, 16 June 2015 - 13 September 2015, cat. no. N-6
2017
[Traveling Exhibitions Presenting National Art Museum Collections, Fiscal 2017] Muse: Women before the Artists' Eyes: From the Collection of the National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo, Fukushima Prefectural Museum of Art, 22 April 2017 - 2 July 2017, 秋田県立近代美術館, 7月15日-9月18日, cat. no. 37
2019
The Matsukata Collection: A One-Hundred-Year Odyssey: Upon the 60th Anniversary of the NMWA, The National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo, 11 June 2019 - 23 September 2019, cat. no. 121, col. repr.

Bibliography

0
Besson, George. Marquet. Paris, Les Editions Braun & Cie, [n. d.], cat. no. 33, repr.
1920
Besson, George. Marquet. [Paris], [G. Crès], [1920], cat. no. 19, repr.
1929
Mermillon, Marius. Marquet. Paris, G. Crès & cie., 1929, cat. no. 6, repr.
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-180.
1971
Les cent chefs-d'œuvre du Musée National d'Art Occidental. Tokyo, The National Museum of Western Art, 1971 (Japanese), no. 57, repr.
1975
Les cent chefs-d'œuvre du Musée National d'Art Occidental. Tokyo, The National Museum of Western Art, 1975 (Japanese), no. 41, repr.
1979
The National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo: Catalogue of Paintings. Tokyo, The National Museum of Western Art, 1979, no. 162, repr.
1983
Modern Nude Paintings 1880-1980 (exh. cat.). The National Museum of Art, Osaka, ed. [Suita], The National Museum of Art, Osaka, 1983, pp. 42, 116, cat. no. 119, repr.
1989
The Old Matsukata Collection (exh. cat.). Kobe City Museum, ed. [Kobe], "Matsukata Collection Ten" Jikkoiinkai, 1989, pp. 45, 171, cat. no. 56, col. repr.
1990
The Old Matsukata Collection. Kobe City Museum, ed. Kobe, "Matsukata Korekushon Ten" Jikkoiinkai, 1990, cat. no. 995.
1997
Expressiveness of Materials (exh. cat.). The National Museum of Wetsern Art, Tokyo; The National Museum of Art, Osaka, eds. 「Tokyo]/ [Suita], The National Museum of Wetsern Art, Tokyo; The National Museum of Art, Osaka, 1997, p. 19, cat. no. 48
2015
No Museum No Life?: Art-Museum Encyclopedia to Come: from the Collections of the National Museums of Art (exh. cat.). The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, ed. [Tokyo], National Museum of Art, 2015, pp, 218, 221, 368, cat. no. N-6, 131, repr.
2017
Muse: Women before the Artists' Eyes: from the Collection of the National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo: Traveling Exhibitions Presenting National Art Museum Collections, Fiscal 2017 (exh. cat.). Nakada, Asuka, ed. Tokyo, The National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo, 2017, pp. 62, 139, cat. no. 37, 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. 705, col. repr.
2019
The Matsukata Collection: A One-Hundred-Year Odyssey (exh. cat.). Jingaoka, Megumi, ed. Tokyo, The National Museum of the Western Art, Tokyo; Yomiuri Shimbun; NHK; NHK Promotions, 2019, pp. 212-213, 369, cat. no. 121, col. repr.

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