Updated 27 June 2025
Currently not on display

Currently not on display
Sitting Nude
Date | 1912 |
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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.