Musical Director by Noël-François Roger de La Fresnaye
Art Institute of Chicago

Musical Director

Noël-François Roger de La Fresnaye · 1917/18

Provenance

Ownership history

  1. Georges de Miré (the artist’s cousin), Versailles [Seligman 1969]. Germain Seligman (1893–1978), New York, by 1959–1979 [New York 1959; Richardson 1979]. Given by Harold Joachim (1909–1983), Chicago, to the Art Institute, 1979.

Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.

Exhibitions

Exhibition history

  • Chicago, The Renaissance Society of the University of Chicago, "Drawings by Contemporary Artists," May 20-June 10, 1944, n.p., cat. 14.
  • New York, Jacques Seligmann and Company, "Roger de La Fresnaye: Watercolors, Gouaches, Drawings," October 30–November 20, 1947, n.p., cat. 3.
  • Rotterdam, Museum Boymans, "Van Clouet tot Matisse: Tentoonstelling van franse tekeningen uit amerikaanse collecties," July 31–September 28, 1958, pp. 129 and 191, cat. 198 (ill.); traveled to the Musée de l'Orangerie, Paris, October 24, 1958–January 2, 1959, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, February 3–March 15, 1959.
  • Chicago, The Arts Club, "Drawings 1916/1966," February 28–March 11, 1966, cat. 29.

Literature

Published references

  • Art News XLVI: 9, part I (November 1947), p. 41 (ill.).
  • Agnes Mongan, "De Clouet a Matisse. Les americains collectionneurs de dessins français," Le Jardin des Arts (January 1959), p. 190 (ill.).
  • Germain Seligman, Roger de la Fresnaye with a catalogue raisonné (London, 1969), p. 196, no. 297 (ill.).
  • John Richardson, The Collection of Germain Seligman (New York, 1979), no. 37 (ill.).

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