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Lot 334 Property from a Private American Collection 

Maurice Denis (1870-1943)

Les deux colombes

Closed5 May 2010

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USD 194,500

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Maurice Denis (1870-1943)
Les deux colombes
signed with monogram and dated '94' (lower right)
oil on canvas
24 x 10¼ in. (61 x 26 cm.)
Painted in 1894

Georges Moreau (1894).
Claude Moreau (by descent from the above, by 1989).
Anon. sale, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 15 June 1990, lot 33.
Galerie Berès, Paris (acquired at the above sale).
Private collection (acquired from the above).
Private collection, Los Angeles (by descent from the above); sale, Sotheby's, New York, 11 May 2000, lot 81.
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner.

Specialist note

Claire Denis will include this painting in her forthcoming Denis catalogue raisonné.