Woman in Blue at the Beach

1902/1904

Jacques Villon

Artist, French, 1875 - 1963

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Artwork history & notes

Provenance

(E.J. van Wisselingh & Co., Amsterdam); Mrs. Bertram L. Smith; (Helene C. Seiferheld Gallery Inc., New York); Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon, Upperville, VA, 1964; gift to NGA, 1995.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1964

  • Jacques Villon Master Printmaker. R.M. Light and Co., and Helene C. Seiferheld Gallery, Inc., New York, 1964, no. 10.

1997

  • Six Centuries/Six Artists, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1997.

2016

  • In Celebration of Paul Mellon, NGA, 2016.

Bibliography

1964

  • Steegmuller, Francis. "A master of 'Volupté'."Apollo (March 1964): fig. 2.

1976

  • Robbins, Daniel, ed. Jacques Villon. Exh. cat. Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, 1976, under no. 15, fig. 15b.

Inscriptions

lower center in graphite: Jacques Villon; upper left stamped in brown: 2028

Wikidata ID

Q64580126

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