LOT DETAILS

Materials:

oil on canvas

Measurements:

25.59 in. (65.00 cm.) (height) by 31.89 in. (81.00 cm.) (width)

Exhibited:

(possibly) Brussels, Palais des Beaux-Arts, Vlaminck, May-June 1933, no. 7. Kunsthalle Bern, Les Fauves, April-May 1950, no. 119. Geneva, Musée de l'Athénée, Maurice de Vlaminck, du fauvisme à nos jours, July-September 1958, no. 5. Paris, Petit Palais, De Géricault à Matisse, Chefs d'Oeuvre Français des Collections Suisses, March-May 1959, no. 137. Schaffhausen, Museum zu Allerheiligen and Berlin, Staatliche Museen Nationalgalerie, Triumph der Farbe, die Europäischen Fauves, July-November 1959, p. 16, no. 22. Kunstmuseum Bern, Vlaminck, February-April 1961, no. 132 (illustrated, pl. 4). London, The Lefevre Gallery (Alex. Reid & Lefevre, Ltd.), Les Fauves, November-December 1978, no. 8 (illustrated in color). Sydney, The Art Gallery of New South Wales and Melbourne, National Gallery of Victoria, Fauves, December 1995-May 1996, no. 89 (illustrated in color; dated 1905-1906).

Literature:

J. Grenier, "La révolution de la couleur" in XXe siècle, December 1960, p. 10 (illustrated in color). M. Vallès-Bled, Vlaminck: Catalogue critique des peintures et céramiques de la période fauve, Paris, 2008, p. 166, no. 61 (illustrated in color, p. 167).

Provenance:

Ambroise Vollard, Paris. Albert Skira, Geneva. Galerie Rosengart, Lucerne (acquired from the above, 1943). Galerie Aktuaryus, Zurich (acquired from the above, 1943). Private collection, Switzerland (circa 1960). The Lefevre Gallery (Alex. Reid & Lefevre, Ltd.), London (circa 1974). Private collection, London (acquired from the above, 1974); sale, Christie's, New York, 10 May 1994, lot 2. Private collection, New York (acquired in 1994). Acquavella Galleries, New York. Acquired from the above by the present owner, 2002.