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拍品专文
Claire Denis and Fabienne Stahl will include this work in their forthcoming Maurice Denis catalogue raisonné.
The picture shows a musical gathering around the pianist Blanche Selva. Maurice Denis made her acquaintance at the Schola Cantorum where Selva had been appointed a professor in 1902. The scene takes place either in the Salle Marguerite Gaveau, a musical salon situated above the Salle Gaveau, one of the most prestigious concert halls in Paris, inaugurated in 1907, or in the Schola Cantorum. The identification of the protagonists is not easy, but Claire Denis has suggested that the figures are, from left to right: Paul Poujaud (seated), Vincent d’Indy and Louis Laloy (standing), Blanche Selva and Berthe de La Laurencie (seated at the piano) and Maurice Alquier (standing at the extreme right). Paul Poujard and Blanche Selva were also painted together by Denis in 1912 for La Sonate, a tondo for the decoration of a cupola at the Théâtre des Champs-Elysees in Paris.
The picture shows a musical gathering around the pianist Blanche Selva. Maurice Denis made her acquaintance at the Schola Cantorum where Selva had been appointed a professor in 1902. The scene takes place either in the Salle Marguerite Gaveau, a musical salon situated above the Salle Gaveau, one of the most prestigious concert halls in Paris, inaugurated in 1907, or in the Schola Cantorum. The identification of the protagonists is not easy, but Claire Denis has suggested that the figures are, from left to right: Paul Poujaud (seated), Vincent d’Indy and Louis Laloy (standing), Blanche Selva and Berthe de La Laurencie (seated at the piano) and Maurice Alquier (standing at the extreme right). Paul Poujard and Blanche Selva were also painted together by Denis in 1912 for La Sonate, a tondo for the decoration of a cupola at the Théâtre des Champs-Elysees in Paris.