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On Display
Four Breton Girls in the Forest (Quatre jeunes bretonnes dans la forêt)
Date | 1892 |
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Materials and Techniques | oil on canvas |
Size(cm) | 92 x 73 |
Standard ref. | Guicheteau 57 |
Category | Paintings |
Collection Number | P.2012-0002 |
Provenance
Offered by the artist to his friend, Auguste Cazalis, called le Nabi Ben Kallyre; M and Mme Cazalis, Enghien-les-Bains; sold at auction, Piasa, Drouot-Richelieu, Paris, 8 December 2004; Private collection, France; Private collection, Switzerland; Purchased by the NMWA, 2013.
Exhibition History
- 2003
- Kenavo monsieur Gauguin, Musée de Pont-Aven, Pont-Aven, 28 June 2003 - 29 September 2003, cat. no. 46, col. repr.
- 2008
- Figures impressionistes et modernes, Galerie Interart, Geneva, 23 April 2008 - 8 July 2008
- 2009
- En plein air, Galerie Interart, Geneva, 30 October 2009 - 15 January 2010
- 2021
- Living in symbiosis with Forests and Water, Nagano Prefectural Art Museum, 28 August 2021 - 3 November 2021, cat.no.93
- 2023
- 国立西洋美術館, The National Museum of Western Art, 18 March 2023 - 11 June 2023, cat. no. 61
Bibliography
- 1976
- Guicheteau, Marcel. Paul Sérusier, Éditions side. Paris, 1976, p. 62, col. repr., p. 208, no. 57.
- 1983
- Boyle-Turner, Caroline. Paul Sérusier. UMI Research Press. Ann Arbor. Michigan, 1983 (first published in 1980)
- 1985
- Boyle-Turner, Caroline. Sérusier's Talisman. Gazette des Beaux-Arts. 6 periode. Tome 105. May-June, 1985, pp. 191-196
- 2009
- Kanazawa, Kiyoe. Talisman par Paul Sérusier et autour de l'établissement des Nabis. Seijo Bigaku Bijyutsushi. vol. 15, 2009, pp. 55-73
- 2014
- Annual Bulletin of the National Museum of Western Art. No. 47 (Apr. 2012-Mar. 2013), 2014, text by Oya, Mina. revised by Jingaoka, Megumi. New Acquisitions. pp. 12-15, List of New Acquisitions. p. 59, repr.
- 2021
- Living in Symbiosis with Forests and Water: Celebrating the Grand Opening of Nagano Prefectural Art Museum (exh.cat.). Tanaka, Masafumi; Furuie, Mitsuha; Ikeda, Atsushi, eds. [Nagano], Nagano Prefectural Art Museum, 2021, pp. 155, 206-207, 214, 219, cat. no. 93, col. repr.
- 2023
- La Bretagne source d'inspiration: regards de peintres français et japonais (exh. cat.). Hakamata, Hiroyo, ed. Tokyo, Tokyo Broadcasting System Television, 2023, pp. 97, 204, cat. no. 61, col. repr.