Maurice Denis (1870-1943)

Portrait d'Odette Frizac

Details

Maurice Denis (1870-1943)
Portrait d'Odette Frizac
signed and dedicated 'A ma chére [sic] cousine Odette Frizac MAURICE DENIS.' (upper right)
oil on canvas
19 1/4 x 19 1/2 in. (49 x 49.5 cm.)
Painted circa 1920

Provenance

Dr Pierre & Odette Frizac, Alençon, a wedding gift from the artist, and thence by descent.
J.P.L. Fine Arts, London, acquired from the above by October 1985.
Private collection, United Kingdom, probably acquired from the above.

Literature

S. Barazzetti-Demoulin, Maurice Denis, Paris, 1945, p. 291.

Exhibited

London, J.P.L. Fine Arts, Maurice Denis, October - December 1985, no. 11, p. 13 (illustrated; dated 'circa 1910').
New York, Bruton Gallery, Impressions, Autumn 1986, no. 20, p. 3 (illustrated p. 20).

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Lot Essay

Claire Denis and Fabienne Stahl will include this work in their forthcoming Denis catalogue raisonné under the number 920.0004.

Odette Frizac was a cousin of Maurice Denis and the daughter of Mr and Mrs Georges Jouin who lived in Alençon, in Normandy, where Denis's parents also originated. This painting was made over two or three sessions and was offered by Denis as a wedding gift for the marriage of Odette to Doctor Pierre Frizac who practiced at Le Vésinet, a town near Saint-Germain-en-Laye where Denis lived.

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