Maurice Denis (1870-1943)
La dune rose
bears monogram (lower left)
oil on canvas
15 x 18 ½ in. (38 x 46.2 cm.)
Painted in 1899
Provenance
Dominique Denis, France (son of the artist). Galerie La Cave, Paris (acquired from the above, circa 1980). Hirschl & Adler Galleries, Inc., New York (acquired from the above). Acquired from the above by the late owner, September 1981.
Exhibited
Musée de Pont Aven, Maurice Denis, 1979, no. 36 (illustrated, p. 28; dated 1900). Paris, Galerie La Cave, Les Nabis, 1890-1900, April-July 1980. Paris, Galerie La Cave, Maurice Denis, Huiles, dessins, pastels, sanguines, March-May 1981. New York, Wildenstein & Co.,Inc., La Revue Blanche, Paris in the Days of Post-Impressionism and Symbolism, November-December 1983, p. 83 (illustrated in color, p. 62). Boston, Museum of Fine Arts, Gauguin and the School of Pont-Aven, June-September 1996.