Charles Dufresne (1876-1938)
L'Adoration
signed 'dufresne' (lower left)
oil on canvas
41 1/2 x 41 3/8 in. (105.5 x 105 cm.)
Painted in 1920
Provenance
Galerie Barbazanges, Paris. Private collection, Brussels. Private collection, France.
Literature
Gazette des beaux arts, Paris, May 1921. Le Théâtre et Comoedia illustré, Paris, 20 May 1921. Revue contemporaine, Paris, June 1921. Der Cicerone, Leipzig, November 1922 (illustrated). Jahrbuch der jungen Kunst, Leipzig, 1922 (illustrated). Sélection, Antwerp, February 1924.
Exhibited
Paris, Grand Palais, Salon de la Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts, 1921, no. 399. Motevideo, Comision National de Bellas Artes, Exposiciòn de Pintura Francesa, April-May 1940, no. 16; this exhibition later travelled to Rio de Janeiro, Museu Nacional de Bellas Artes.