Provenance

Boussod, Valadon et Cie, Paris, 26. 12. 1887; Dupuy, 28. Boussod, Valadon & Co., 26 December 1887; Dupuy, 28 December 1887; Galerie E. Druet, Paris, stock no. 7419, photo no. 4473; purchased from Galerie E. Druet 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

1886

8e Exposition des impressionnistes, Paris, 0  1886 - 0  1886, no. 53

1888

Gauguin, Boussod, Valadon et Cie, Paris, 0  1888 - 0  1888

1923

Gauguin, Galerie Druet, Paris, 0  1923 - 0  1923, no. 5

1982

Exposition spéciale pour l'ouverture du Musée des Beaux-Arts, Gifu : Paris autour de 1882 : Le Développemėnt de la peinture moderne en France et Hôsui Yamamoto, The Museum of Fine Arts, Gifu, 3 November 1982 - 19 December 1982, cat. no. 74, repr.

1983

1880 nendai no Parigadan Ten, The Museum of Modern Art, Kamakura, 15 January 1983 - 20 February 1983, cat. no. 65, repr.

1986

The New Painting: Impressionism 1874-1886, The National Gallery of Art, Washington, 17 January 1986 - 6 April 1986, The Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco, M. H. de Young Memorial Museum, 19 April 1986 - 6 July 1986, cat. no. 145, col. repr.

1987

Paul Gauguin, The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, 6 March 1987 - 17 May 1987, Aichi Prefectural Art Gallery, 12-28 June, cat. no. 11, col. repr.

1989

The French Modern Painting, from the National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo, Miyakonojo City Museum, 15 April 1989 - 14 May 1989, cat. no. 11, repr.

1990

[Tour Exhibition] The French Modern Art, from the National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo, Ibara Municipal Denchu Art Museum, 10 April 1990 - 23 April 1990, cat. no. 12

1990

[Tour Exhibition] The French Modern Art, from the National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo, The Cultural Center of Kagawa Prefecture, Takamatsu, 28 April 1990 - 13 May 1990, cat. no. 12

1990

[Tour Exhibition] The French Modern Art, from the National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo, The Cultural Center of Toyota City, 19 May 1990 - 3 June 1990, cat. no. 12

1991

[Tour Exhibition] The French Modern Art, from the National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo, The Hachinohe City Museum of Art, 28 September 1991 - 27 October 1991, cat. no. 10

1991

[Tour Exhibition] The French Modern Art, from the National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo, The Tendo City Museum of Art, Tendo, 1 November 1991 - 24 November 1991, cat. no. 10

1993

Tournant de la peinture―entre la seconde moitié des années 1880 et les années 1890 théories artistiques et peinture française : Exposition commémorant les dix ans d'activité du Museum of Fine Arts, Gifu, The Museum of Fine Arts, Gifu, 4 February 1993 - 21 March 1993, The Museum of Modern Art, Gunma, 10 April-16 May 1993, cat. no. 13, col. repr.

1997

Expressiveness of Materials, National Museum of Art, Osaka, 17 April 1997 - 22 June 1997, cat. no. 32

2009

Gauguin: Where Do We Come from? What Are We? Where Are We Going?, Nagoya/Boston Museum of Fine Arts, 18 April 2009 - 21 June 2009, cat. no. 3, col. repr.

2009

Paul Gauguin, The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, 3 July 2009 - 23 September 2009, cat. no. 2, col. repr.

2012

[Traveling Exhibitions presenting National Art Museum Collections, Fiscal 2012] Modern European Art: From the Collection of the National Museum of Western Art, Ibara Municipal Denchu Art Museum (Okayama), 5 October 2012 - 25 November 2012, 16

2013

Monet, An Eye for Landscapes: Innovation in 19th Century French Landscape Paintings, Pola Museum of Art, 13 July 2013 - 24 November 2013, The National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo, 7 December 2013-9 March 2014, cat. no. 52, col. repr.

2017

Hokusai and Japonisme, The National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo, 21 October 2017 - 28 January 2018, cat. no. 69, col. repr.

Bibliography

1888

Fénéon, F. Calendrier. Revue Indépendante, 15. 1. 1888, p. 170.

1955

Dorra, Henri. Emile Bernard and Paul Gauguin. Gazette des Beaux-Arts. vol. 45, 1955, pp. 227-246, repr.

1955

La Collection Matsukata, Tokyo, Asahi- Shimbun, 1955 (Japanese), no. 47, 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-153.

1964

Wildenstein, G. Gauguin. 1, catalogue, Paris, 1964, p. 62, no. 167, repr. (as "Baigneuses à Dieppe")

1979

The National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo: Catalogue of Paintings. Tokyo, The National Museum of Western Art, 1979, no. 127, repr.

1990

The Old Matsukata Collection. Kobe City Museum, ed. Kobe, "Matsukata Korekushon Ten" Jikkoiinkai, 1990, cat. no. 701.

2002

Wildenstein, Daniel. Gauguin: a savage in the making: catalogue raisonné of the paintings, 1873-1888. Milan, Skira; Paris, Wildenstein Institute, 2002, vol. 1, pp. 217-218, no. 179, repr.

2009

Paul Gauguin. The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, ed. Tokyo, NHK; NHK Promotions Inc., 2009, cat. no. 2, col. repr.

2009

Gauguin: Where Do We Come from? What Are We? Where Are We Going?. George T. M. Shackelford. [Nagoya], Nagoya/Boston Museum of Fine Arts, 2009, cat. no. 3, col. repr.

2013

MONET, An Eye For Landscapes: Innovation in 19th Century French Landscape Paintings(exh. cat.). Tokyo, TBS, c2013, cat. no. 52, 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. 491, col. repr.

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