Classic Head by Noël-François Roger de La Fresnaye
Art Institute of Chicago

Classic Head

Noël-François Roger de La Fresnaye · 1924

Provenance

Ownership history

  1. Georges de Mire (the artist’s cousin). Bignou Gallery, New York, by 1943 [Chicago 1943]; sold to the Art Institute, 1945.

Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.

Exhibitions

Exhibition history

  • Chicago, The Arts Club, "Roger de la Fresnaye" December 3–27, 1943, cat. 11.
  • Washington, D.C., Phillips Memorial Gallery, "Retrospective Exhibition of Work by Roger de la Fresnaye," January 16–February 15, 1944, cat. 17.
  • New York, Buchholz Gallery, "Roger de la Fresnaye," October 23–November 10, 1945, cat. 27.
  • The Art Institute of Chicago, "Drawings Old and New," 1946, p. 14, cat. 19, pl. XVI.
  • New York, Jacques Seligmann and Company, "Roger de La Fresnaye: Watercolors, Gouaches, Drawings," October 30–November 20, 1947, cat. 22.
  • New York, Wildenstein and Company, "Master Drawings from The Art Institute of Chicago," October 17–November 30, 1963, n.p., cat. 160.

Literature

Published references

  • Germain Seligman, Roger de la Fresnaye (New York, 1945), p. 48, no. 49.
  • “Drawings in Chicago,” The Art Digest 20:12 (March 15, 1946), p. 13 (ill.).
  • Judith Kaye Reed, “De la Fresnaye, Classic French Cubist,” The Art Digest 22:4 (November 15, 1947), p. 11.
  • Germain Seligman, Roger de la Fresnaye with a catalogue raisonné (London, 1969), p. 260, no. 568 (ill.).

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