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lower right: R de La Fresnaye

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Provenance

Walther Halvorsen [d. 1972], Copenhagen. Richard Bergh, Stockholm. Mrs. Hallström, Stockholm, by 1950.[1] (Svensk-Franska Konstgalleriet, Stockholm); sold 2 January 1958 to (Justin K. Thannhauser, New York).[2] Mr. and Mrs. Morton D. May [he: 1914-1983], St. Louis, by 1964.[3] Washington University and The St. Louis Symphony Society, St. Louis; (sale, Parke-Bernet, New York, 6 April 1967, no. 63); Nathan Cummings [d. 1985], Chicago; The Sara Lee Corporation, Chicago; gift 2000 (promised 1998) to NGA.

[1] She lent the painting to a 1950 exhibition in Stockholm.

[2] Records of the Svensk-Franska Konstgalleriet, Getty Research Institute, Series IIA, Box 164, Register of Sales, October 1952-December 1959 (copies, NGA curatorial files)

[3] They lent the painting to an exhibition in San Francisco that opening in November 1964.

Exhibition History

1912
Salon d'Automne, Paris, 1912, no. 613.
1914
Paintings, drawings, watercolours by Roger de La Fresnaye, Galerie Levesque, Paris, 1914, no. 30.
1931
Société Interscandinave d'Art Français, Stockholm; Göteborg; Copenhagen; Oslo, 1931.
1950
Roger de la Fresnaye, Musée National d'Art Moderne, Paris, 1950, no. 47, repro.
1954
Cézanne till Picasso: Fransk konst i svensk ägo, Liljevalchs Konstall, Stockholm, 1954, no. 129.
1961
A Galaxy of Treasures, St. Louis Art Museum, 1961.
1964
Man: Glory, Jest, and Riddle: A Survey of the Human Form through the Ages, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, 1964-1965, no. 259, repro.
1965
The Heroic Years: Paris 1908-1914, Museum of Modern Art, New York; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, 1965.
1969
Palais Gailliéra, Paris, September 1969.
1969
Stanford University, Palo Alto, California, April 1969.
1970
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1970-1971.
1970
Selections from the Nathan Cummings Collection, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1970, no. 22, repro.
1971
Selections from the Nathan Cummings Collection, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1971, no. 22, repro.
1973
Major Works from the Collection of Nathan Cummings, Art Institute of Chicago, 1973, no. 51, repro.
1990
Modern Art: From the Museum's Collections, and Distinguished Loans [Celebrating the museum's 25th Anniversary and opening of the Nathan Cummings 20th-Century Art Building], Israel Museum, Jersalem, 1990, no cat.
1991
Multiple Perspectives: Cubism in Chicago Collections, The David and Alfred Smart Museum, The University of Chicago, 1991.
1999
Monet to Moore: The Millenium Gift of Sara Lee Corporation, Singapore Museum of Art; National Gallery of Australia, Canberra; North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh; Portland Art Museum, Oregon; Art Institute of Chicago, 1999-2000, no. 18, repro.
2005
Roger de La Fresnaye (1885-1925). Cubismo y tradición, Musée de Tessé, Le Mans; Museu Picasso, Barcelona, 2005-2006, no. 54, repro.

Bibliography

1912
Allard, Roger. R. de La Fresnay. Paris, 1912: 27, repro.
1969
Seligman, Garmain. Roger de La Fresnaye with a catalogue raisonné. London and New York, 1969: 45, 151, no. 121, repro.
1983
Consolidated Foods Corporation's Nathan Cummings Collection. Chicago, 1983: 16-17, fig. 11.
1997
Brettell, Richard R. An Impressionist Legacy: The Collection of Sara Lee Corporation. New York, 1997: 80, 150-151, repro. (earlier editions published 1986, 1987, 1990, 1993).

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