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Currently not on display

Maurice Denis

Granville, 1870 - Saint-Germain-en-Laye, 1943

Castello delle Quattro Torri, Siena

Date 1921
Materials and Techniques oil on cardboard (with cradle)
Size(cm) 43.4 x 35
Inscriptions Signed lower left: MAV D.
Credit Line Matsukata Collection
Standard ref. M391
Category Paintings
Collection Number P.1959-0075

Provenance

Purchased from the artist by Kojiro Matsukata, Kobe, ca. December 1921 (Fr. 5,000) [see letters dated 10 and 13 December 1921 from Galerie E. Druet to Léonce Bénédite, in the Bibliothèque centrale des musées nationaux, Paris (copies 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

1921
Exposition Maurice Denis, Galerie Druet, Paris, 21 November 1921 - 2 December 1921, cat. no. 17.
1924
Exposition Maurice Denis, 1888-1924, Musée des Arts décoratifs, Paris, 11 April 1924 - 11 May 1924, cat. no. 294.
1997
Expressiveness of Materials, National Museum of Art, Osaka, 17 April 1997 - 22 June 1997, cat. no. 42
2015
[Prints and Drawings Exhibition]Lithographs and Etchings from Fin-de-Siècle France, National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo, 17 March 2015 - 31 May 2015, cat. no. 1

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-104.
1979
The National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo: Catalogue of Paintings. Tokyo, The National Museum of Western Art, 1979, no. 93, repr.
1990
The Old Matsukata Collection. Kobe City Museum, ed. Kobe, "Matsukata Korekushon Ten" Jikkoiinkai, 1990, cat. no. 554.
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. 391, col. repr.

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