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Woman in Front of a Still Life by Cezanne

Paul Gauguin · 1890

Provenance

Ownership history

Bernheim-Jeune Galerie, Paris [according to Wildenstein 1964]. Ernest Brown and Phillips, Leicester Galleries, London by 1924 [see London 1924 and Wildenstein 1964]. Chester H. Johnson Gallery, Chicago, by 1925; sold to the Art Institute, 1925.

Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.

Exhibitions

Exhibition history

London, Stafford Gallery, Exhibition of Pictures by Paul Cezanne (1839-1906) and Paul Gauguin (1848-1903), November 23 and after, 1911, cat. 21, as Portrait of a Girl.
London, The Leicester Galleries, Exhibition of Works by Paul Gauguin (1848-1903), July-August, 1924, cat. 45, as L’Arlésienne.
The Art Institute of Chicago, Century of Progress: Exhibition of Paintings and Sculpture, June 1-November 1, 1933, cat. 358, as Mlle. Marie Henry.
The Art Institute of Chicago, Century of Progress: Exhibition of Paintings and Sculpture, June 1-November 1, 1934, cat. 303 (pl. XLIX), as Mlle. Marie Henry.
New York, Wildenstein & Co., Great Portraits from Impressionism to Modernism: A Loan Exhibition form the Benefit of the Public Education Association, March 1-March 29, 1938, cat. 17 (pl. IV), as Mlle. Marie Henry.
The Baltimore Museum of Art, Modern Paintings, Isms and How They Grew, January 12-February 11, 1940, no cat.
Museum of Fine Arts of Houston, Paul Gauguin: His Place in the Meeting of East and West, March 27-April 25, 1954, cat. 18 (ill.), as Portrait of a Woman, Marie Henry.
Edinburgh, The Royal Scotish Academy, An Exhibition of Paintings, Engravings and Sculpture: Gauguin, 1955, cat. 35 (pl. XII), as Portrait of Marie Henry.
Art Institute of Chicago, Gauguin: Paintings, Drawings, Prints, Sculpture, February 12-March 29, 1959, cat. 24, as Marie Derrien; New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, April 21-May 31, 1959.
San Francisco, California Palace of Legion of Honor, M. H. de Young Memorial Museum and The San Francisco Museum of Art, Man, Glory, Jest, and Riddle: A Survey of the Human Form through the Ages, November 10, 1964-January 3, 1965, cat. 182, as Portrait of Marie Derrien.
London, Tate Gallery, Gauguin and the Pont Aven Group, January 7-February 13, 1966, cat. 33 (pl. 23b), as Portrait of Marie Derrien, traveled to Zürich, Kunsthaus, Pont Aven: Gauguin und sein Kreis, March 5-April 11, 1966, cat. 30 (ill.).
New York, Wildenstein and Co., Faces from the World of Impressionism and Post-Impressionism: A Loan Exhibition for the benefit of The New York Chapter of The Arthritis Foundation, November 2-December 9, 1972, cat. 30 (ill.), as Marie Derrien.

Literature

Published references

The Art Institute of Chicago, The Art Institute of Chicago Forty-Seventh Annual Report 1925 (Chicago: The Art Institute of Chicago, 1925), pp. 14, 39 (ill.).
“A Portrait of Gauguin,” The Bulletin of The Art Institute of Chicago 20, 1 (January 1926), p. 2 (ill.).
“Art Institute Buys a Gauguin Portrait,” The Art News 24, 18 (February 6, 1926), p. 4.
Arsène Alexandre, Paul Gauguin: Sa vie et le sens de son oeuvre (Paris, 1930), p. 29 (ill.).
The Art Institute of Chicago, A Guide to the Paintings in the Permanent Collection (Chicago, 1932), pp. 71 (ill.), 72, 154.
“The Rearrangement of the Painting Galleries,” The Bulletin of The Art Institute of Chicago 27, 7 (December 1933), p. 116.
Charles Kunstler, Gauguin, peintre maudit: anciens et modernes (Paris, 1934), p. 47 (ill.).
The Art Institute of Chicago, A Brief Illustrated Guide to the Collections (Chicago, 1935), p. 31.
Paul Gauguin, Paul Gauguin’s Intimate Journals (New York, 1936), p. 253 (ill.).
John Rewald, Gauguin (New York, 1938), p. 52 (ill.).
The Art Institute of Chicago, A Brief Illustrated Guide to the Collections (Chicago, 1941), p. 37.
S. Rocheblave, La Peinture française au XIXe siècle (Paris, 1941), pl. 87.

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