L’ormière à Bessan

L’ormière à Bessan

1927
Artist
Maurice Denis, French, 1870-1943
Country
France
Object
painting
Medium
Oil paint on canvas
Accession Number
2015.319
Credit Line
Purchase with departmental acquisition funds

Maurice Denis,  L’ormière à Bessan, 1927. Oil paint on canvas; 13 x 17 3/4 in. Denver Art Museum:  Purchase with departmental acquisition funds, 2015.319

Dimensions
image height: 13 in, 33.0200 cm; image width: 17 3/4 in, 45.0850 cm; frame height: 18 1/16 in, 45.8788 cm; frame width: 22 3/4 in, 57.7850 cm; frame depth: 1 5/8 in, 4.1275 cm
Inscription
[lower left] MAV-DENIS
Department
European and American Art Before 1900
Collection
European Painting and Sculpture before 1900
Known Provenance
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Exhibition History
  • Maurice Denis, Peintures, aquarelles, dessins, lithographies, Musée Toulouse Lautrec, Albi, 28 June – 29 September 1963, no. 143 as Paysage de Bessan, dated 1927
  • Maurice Denis, Musées de Province, 1945-6, no. 28, as L’ormière à Bessan
  • Exposition Maurice Denis (1870-1943), Organized for ‘l’Entr’aide des Artistes en homage á Maurice Denis, avec le concours de Mme Maurice Denis et de la famille de l’artiste.. et sous le haut patronage de la Direction des Musées Nationaux’, Musée d’Art Moderne, Paris, opened June 1, 1945, no. 130, entitled L’ormière à Bessan, text by André Gide and Pierre Bonnard
  • Exposition de peinture contemporaine. Maurice Denis, ses maîtres, ses amis, ses élèves, Cambrai, November - December 1945, Orléans, Janurary - February 1946, Dijon, March - April 1946, Nice, May 1946, Montpellier, June 1946, Valencce July 1946, Annecy, August 1946, no. 28
  • Maurice Denis, Galerie Beux-Arts, Paris, April-May 1963, n. 119
  • Maurice Denis, Musée de l’Orangerie des Tuileries, Paris, 3 June – 31 August 1970, no. 228 in the catalogue, as Paysage de Bessan.