Live Auction 3030Impressionist and Modern Art
Maurice Denis (1870-1943)
Lot 68

Maurice Denis (1870-1943)

Portrait de Mme Genêt, sur le Trieux

Closed29 May 2013

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EUR 11,250

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Maurice Denis (1870-1943)
Portrait de Mme Genêt, sur le Trieux
signed, dated and inscribed with title 'MAVD.1906.' (upper right)
oil on canvas
73.5 x 50 cm.
Painted in 1906.

Anonymous sale, Sotheby's, London, 13 April 1972, lot 36.
Margaret Fischer, London.
Anonymous sale, Sotheby's, London, 22 October 1986, lot 43.
Anonymous sale, Phillips, London, 5 February 2001, lot 39.
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner.

Specialist note

The present painting depicts a portrait of Mme. Genêt. She was a good friend of the artist who made several portraits of her. The present lot was painted at the river Trieux, near Perros-Guirec in Brittany, where both families would spend their holidays together.

To be included in the Maurice Denis catalogue raisonné being prepared by Dominique and Claire Denis, Thérèse Barruel and Anne Cruson.