Auction House

Auction: 19th Century Paintings

15. December 2020, 5:00 pm

Object overview
Object

0318

Maurice Denis

(Granville 1870 - 1943 Paris)

„"Porträts of Bibiane and Alice de la Laurencie with red ribbons" (Study for the painting "Portrait de Mme de la Laurencie et de ses enfants", 1904, Musée d'Orsay)“
oil on cardboard
26 x 37 cm
signed with dedication on the lower left: "A Marie-Alice de la Laurencie / Affectueux souvenir de Maurice Denis"

Provenance

auction Christie's, London, 8th October 1976, lot 133;
Claude Aguttes S.A.S., Paris, 17th October 2010, lot 64;
private collection, Europe

The work is in the archives of the forthcoming catalogue raisonné, edited by Claire Denis and Fabienne Stahl: index number 904.0126
The present work is a study for the painting "Mme de La Laurencie et de ses enfants", dated 1904, and is part of the Musée d’Orsay collection. It has been in the Musée des Beaux-arts in Nantes (Index-Nr.: 904.0056), since 2017.

Estimate: € 6.000 - 12.000
Auction is closed.