Provenance

Purchased from artist by Kojiro Matsukata, Kobe, ca. December 1921, as ‘Vingt dessins’ (Fr. 20,000 for 20 drawings) [see several letters among Léonce Bénédite, Galerie E. Druet and Suzuki & Co., December 1921, in Bibliothèque centrale des musées nationaux, Paris, copies in NMWA curatorial files]; 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

1981

Maurice Denis, National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo, 1 September 1981 - 18 October 1981, cat. no. 136

2016

[Prints and Drawings Exhibition] The Drawings of Maurice Denis: Traces of Inspiration on Paper, National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo, Prints and Drawings Gallery, 15 October 2016 - 15 January 2017, cat. no. 6

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-123.

1990

The Old Matsukata Collection. Kobe City Museum, ed. Kobe, "Matsukata Korekushon Ten" Jikkoiinkai, 1990, cat. no. 573.

2017

Hakamata, Hiroyo. Catalogue of the Maurice Denis Drawings in the NMWA Collection. Journal of the National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo. No. 21, 2017, pp. 35-56, [with English Abstract], cat. no. 9.

2019

The Matsukata Collection: Complete Catalogue of the European Art. Kawaguchi, Masako; Jingaoka, Megumi, eds. vol. 2: Sculpture, Drawings, Prints and Decorative Arts and Other Works, Tokyo, The National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo, 2019, cat. no. 1535, col. repr.

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