
Art Institute of Chicago
La Java
Georges Emile Capon · 1925
Provenance
Ownership history
- Mr. and Mrs. Carter H. Harrison, Chicago, by 1929 [Chicago 1929]; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, Dec. 14, 1937.
Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.
Exhibitions
Exhibition history
- Paris, Galerie B. Weill, Georges Capon: Peintures et Dessins, May 31–June 12, 1926, cat. 9, as La java.
- Art Institute of Chicago, Exhibition of Paintings from the Collection of Carter H. Harrison, July 18–Oct. 14, 1929, cat. 3, as La Java—(the Javanese).
- Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, The 1920s: Age of the Metropolis, June 20–Nov. 10, 1991, cat. 64.
- New York, Grey Art Museum, New York University, Berthe Weill: Art Dealer of the Parisian Avant-Garde, Oct. 1, 2024-Mar. 1, 2025, cat. 80; Montréal, Musée des beaux-arts de Montréal, May, 10, -Sept. 7, 2025; Paris, Musée de l'Orangerie, Oct. 8, 2025-Jan. 25, 2026.
Literature
Published references
- Galerie B. Weill, Georges Capon: Peintures et Dessins, exh. cat. (Paris: Galerie B. Weill, 1926), n.p. cat. 9.
- Art Institute of Chicago, Exhibition of Paintings from the Collection of Carter H. Harrison, exh. cat. (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1929), n.p., cat. 4, as La Java—(the Javanese).
- Art Institute of Chicago, Paintings in the Art Institute of Chicago: A Catalogue of the Picture Collection (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1961), 66, as La Java.
- Jean Clair, ed., The 1920s: Age of the Metropolis, exh. cat. (Montreal, Quebec, Canada: Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, 1991), 346 (ill.), 511, no. 64, fig. 452.
- Lynn Gumpert, Marianne Le Morvan, Anne Grace, Stéphane Aquin, et. al., Berthe Weill: Art Dealer of the Parisian Avant-Garde, exh. cat. (Paris: Flammarion, 2024), 134, cat. 80, 135 (color ill.), 194.
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