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painting of a woman holding a baby in a room with other peoplean image of a painting of a woman holding a baby in her armsan image of a picture of a wooden frame with a window in ita sculpture of a person standing in a room with a painting on the wall
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Maurice DENIS Maternity – 1895 Oil on canvas Signed and dated in the top right-hand corner “M/A/V/D/95” 81 x 65 cm Provenance: Galerie Vollard, acquired from the artist between 1900 and 1904 (200 francs, Stock Book B, no. 3438) Ambroise Vollard Collection (1866–1939), (1922) Drouant-David Collection (1945) Dr Robert Ducroquet Collection, Paris (acquired before 1963) Auction, London, Christie’s, Robert Ducroquet Collection, 8 November 1972, lot 118 Auction, Paris, Mes Loudmer, Poulain, Cornette de Saint-Cyr, 11 June 1974, lot 10  Oscar Ghez Collection, Geneva (donated to the Musée du Petit Palais, Geneva) Auction, London, Sotheby’s, Modern Art Foundation Geneva, 4 July 1979, lot 235 Samuel Josefowitz Collection, Lausanne Long-term loan to the Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto (1980–2001) Auction, London, Christie’s, 7 February 2007, lot 238 George Economou Collection, Athens Auction, Paris, Me Tajan, 8 December 2015, lot 4 Acquired at this auction by the current owner Louis Grandchamp des Raux Collection Exhibitions: Paris, Musée National d’Art Moderne, Maurice Denis, June 1945, no. 36 Pont-Aven, Pont-Aven Town Hall, Gauguin and his Friends, August–September 1961, no. 55, p. 26 Mannheim, Städtische Kunsthalle, ‘The Nabis’, October 1963 – January 1964, no. 93 (according to a label on the reverse) Paris, Orangerie des Tuileries, ‘Maurice Denis’, June–August 1970, no. 82, p. 42 Tokyo, National Museum of Western Art; Kyoto, National Museum of Modern Art, Maurice Denis, September–October 1981, no. 37, reproduced Barcelona, Fundació Catalunya La Pedrera, The Nabis: From Bonnard to Vuillard, March–June 2026, p. 236, reproduced in colour on p. 117 Warsaw, Royal Łazienki Museum, The Nabis – Prophets of a New Art, July–September 2026 Bibliography: S. Barazzetti-Demoulin, Maurice Denis, 25 November 1870 – 13 November 1943, Grasset, Paris, 1945, p. 215 and p. 280, reproduced (between pages 216 and 217) D. Delouche, Échos de Pont-Aven: P. Gauguin, E. Bernard, P. Sérusier, M. Maufra, M. Denis, Presses universitaires de Rennes 2, ‘Regards’ collection, Rennes, 1991, p. 72 This work will be included in the catalogue raisonné of the works of Maurice Denis currently being prepared by Ms Claire Denis and Ms Fabienne Stahl, under catalogue number 895.0209. A digital certificate of inclusion issued by Ms Claire Denis and Ms Fabienne Stahl will be provided to the purchaser. Maurice DENIS 81 x 65 cm
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