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Roger de La Fresnaye

The Bathers, 1912

Not on View

Medium

oil on canvas

Dimensions

overall: 162 x 130 cm (63 3/4 x 51 3/16 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of Sara Lee Corporation

Accession Number

2000.51.1

Artists / Makers

Roger de La Fresnaye (painter) French, 1885 - 1925

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Inscription

lower right: R de La Fresnaye

Provenance

Walther Halvorsen [1887-1972], 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.

Associated Names

Bergh, Richard
Cummings, Nathan
Hallström, Mrs.
Halvorsen, Walther
May, Morton D., Mr. and Mrs.
Parke-Bernet Galleries, Inc.
Sara Lee Corporation
St. Louis Symphony Society, The
Svensk-Franska Konstgalleriet
Thannhauser, Justin K.
Washington University

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 catalogue.

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).