Lot Essay
Claire Denis and Fabienne Stahl will include this work in their forthcoming Denis catalogue raisonné.
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Plage au cerf-volant
Details
Maurice Denis (1870-1943)
Plage au cerf-volant
signed with monogram and dated '1903' (lower left)
oil on canvas
25¼ x 38 5/8 in. (64.2 x 98 cm.)
Painted in 1903
Plage au cerf-volant
signed with monogram and dated '1903' (lower left)
oil on canvas
25¼ x 38 5/8 in. (64.2 x 98 cm.)
Painted in 1903
Provenance
Galerie E. Druet, Paris (1903-1904).
(possibly) Ambroise Vollard, Paris.
Otto and Magdalena Blohm, Hamburg and Caracas.
Beatrice Blohm von Rumohr (by descent from the above).
By descent from the above to the present owner.
(possibly) Ambroise Vollard, Paris.
Otto and Magdalena Blohm, Hamburg and Caracas.
Beatrice Blohm von Rumohr (by descent from the above).
By descent from the above to the present owner.
Literature
S. Barazzetti, Maurice Denis, Paris, 1945, p. 283.
Exhibited
Paris, Grandes Serres de l'Alma, Exposition de la Société des Artistes Indépendants, February-March 1904, no. 694.
(possibly) Paris, Salon de la Nationale, 1904, no. 386 (titled Femmes et enfants dur le bord de la mer).
(possibly) Paris, Salon de la Nationale, 1904, no. 386 (titled Femmes et enfants dur le bord de la mer).
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