Sur le canapé d'argent pâle

1892/1899

Maurice Denis

Associated Names
Maurice Denis

Artist, French, 1870 - 1943

Ambroise Vollard

Artist, French, 1866 - 1939

Maurice Denis

Printer, French, 1870 - 1943

Auguste Clot

Printer, French, 1858 - 1936

This print shows a woman seated with her arms crossed on her lap. Her head is slightly turned to the left. She has pale yellow skin and dark green hair, and her facial features are faint and hard to see. She wears a red dress with a grid pattern on the chest and sleeves and green dots on the torso and skirt. She sits on a pale-yellow couch with a red-and-green design. In the background, on the right, is another person standing behind the couch and holding an open book. This person also has pale yellow skin, and they wear a dark blue garment. Behind them appears to be a textured wall in warm orange and yellow hues.
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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    color lithograph on thin yellowish/cream wove paper

  • Credit Line

    Rosenwald Collection

  • Dimensions

    image: 40.6 × 29.1 cm (16 × 11 7/16 in.)
    sheet: 52.9 × 39.3 cm (20 13/16 × 15 1/2 in.)

  • Accession Number

    1943.3.3417

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Cailler 1968, no. 117

  • Series Title

    Amour: no.10 [Cailler 107-119; 1943.3.3409-3421]

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Lessing Julius Rosenwald [1891-1971], Philadelphia, (Lugt 1932d); gift to National Gallery of Art, 1943.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1945

  • Philadelphia Art Alliance, 1945.

1948

  • Paris, The Favorable Climate, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1948 - 1949.

1950

  • Vollard, Connoisseur, National Gallery of Art, 1950 – 1951.

1954

  • Lithographs by Bonnard, Vuillard, and Maurice Denis, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1954.

1960

  • Artist-Writers: Exhibition of Prints and Drawings, Philadelphia Art Alliance, 1960.

1962

  • Prints with Color, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1962.

Bibliography

1968

  • Cailler, Pierre. Catalogue raisonne de l'oeuvre grave et lithographie de Maurice Denis. Geneva: Editions Pierre Cailler, 1968.

Inscriptions

lower right, printed in image: 98; lower left, below image, in stone: sur le canapé d'argent pâle

Wikidata ID

Q64960506

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