MAURICE DENIS
Granville 1870-1943 Paris
Descente de croix, 1901
Signed with the artist’s monogram and dated, lower right, MAVD/1901
Oil on canvas, unlined, in its original frame designed and painted by the artist
45 ½ x 51 ½ inches
116 x 131.2 cm
Provenance
Louis Rouart (1875-1964), Paris, acquired directly from the artist in 1901
Jacques Watelin (1879-1964), Paris, circa 1945
Comte Henry de la Monneraye (1888-1984), Paris, by 1954
Dr. Louis Delavelle, Paris
Sale: Enghien-les-Bains, Gautier-Goxe-Belaïsch, 17 December 2006
Private collection, Paris
Exhibitions
Paris, Grand Palais, Salon de la Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts, 1902, cat. no. 342, p. 22, illustrated
Brussels, Les Peintres impressionistes, 1904, cat. no. 43
Paris, Pavillon de Marson (Musée des Arts décoratifs), Maurice Denis 1888-1924, 1924, cat. no. 106
Paris, Musée national d’Art moderne, Maurice Denis (1870-1943), 1945-46, cat. no. 83
New York, Richard L. Feigen Co.,in association with W. M. Brady & Co., Master Paintings and Drawings, 1360-1920, 30 October – 12 December 2019, uncatalogued
Literature
Alexandre, “Les Salons de 1902,” in Le Figaro, p. 4
M. Hamel, “Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts” (review), in Salons de 1902, Paris, 1902, p. 62
Henry, Gazette des Beaux-Arts, Courrier Européen de l’art et de la curiosité, 1902, pp. 457-58
R. Marx, “Les Salons de 1903,” in La Revue universelle, p. 277
J. Meier-Graefe, Entwickelungsgeschichte der modernen Kunst, vergleichende Betrachtung der bildenden Küste, als Beitrag zu einer neuen Aesthetik, Stuttgart, 1904, vol. I, p. 362
A. Pératé, Maurice Denis, Paris, 1923, p. 71
F. Fosca, Maurice Denis et son oeuvre, Paris, 1924, p. 8,“Hommage à Maurice Denis,” in L’Art Sacré, 1937, p. 157, illustrated
S. Barazzetti-Demoulin, Maurice Denis, Paris, 1945, p. 282
P. Jamot, Maurice Denis, Paris, 1945, p. 19, illustrated
J.-P. Bouillon, Maurice Denis, Geneva, 1993, p. 109-111
C. Verleysen, Maurice Denis et la Belgique, 1890-1930, Leuven, 2010, p. 64
PRIVATE COLLECTION, CALIFORNIA