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WORKS FROM THE COLLECTION OF NANNETTE & HERBERT ROTHSCHILD
ROBERT DELAUNAY (1885-1941)
Nature morte portugaise, étude
Details
ROBERT DELAUNAY (1885-1941)
Nature morte portugaise, étude
oil and encaustic wax on joined paper laid down on canvas
29 7⁄8 x 36 ½ in. (75.8 x 92.7 cm.)
Executed in Portugal in 1916
Nature morte portugaise, étude
oil and encaustic wax on joined paper laid down on canvas
29 7⁄8 x 36 ½ in. (75.8 x 92.7 cm.)
Executed in Portugal in 1916
Provenance
Sonia Delaunay, Paris.
Nannette and Herbert Rothschild, New York and Ossining (probably acquired from the above, before 1956).
By descent from the above to the present owners.
Nannette and Herbert Rothschild, New York and Ossining (probably acquired from the above, before 1956).
By descent from the above to the present owners.
Literature
P. Francastel and G. Habasque, Robert Delaunay: Du Cubisme à l'art abstrait, Paris, 1957, p. 279, no. 180.
Exhibited
Amsterdam, Stedelijk Museum and Eindhoven, Stedelijk Van Abbe Museum, Robert Delaunay, October 1957-January 1958, no. 34.
London, Arts Council of Great Britain, Robert Delaunay: Catalogue of an Exhibition of his Paintings, Reliefs, Drawings and Lithographs, January-February 1958, no. 30.
Providence, Annmary Brown Memorial, Brown University and Rhode Island School of Design Museum of Art, Herbert and Nannette Rothschild Collection, October-November 1966, no. 37 (illustrated in color; with incorrect dimensions).
Washington, D.C., National Gallery of Art; Philadelphia Museum of Art and San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Encounters with Modern Art, The Reminiscences of Nanette F. Rothschild, Works from the Rothschild Family Collections, September 1996-December 1997, p. 140, no. 15 (illustrated in color, p. 141).
London, Arts Council of Great Britain, Robert Delaunay: Catalogue of an Exhibition of his Paintings, Reliefs, Drawings and Lithographs, January-February 1958, no. 30.
Providence, Annmary Brown Memorial, Brown University and Rhode Island School of Design Museum of Art, Herbert and Nannette Rothschild Collection, October-November 1966, no. 37 (illustrated in color; with incorrect dimensions).
Washington, D.C., National Gallery of Art; Philadelphia Museum of Art and San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Encounters with Modern Art, The Reminiscences of Nanette F. Rothschild, Works from the Rothschild Family Collections, September 1996-December 1997, p. 140, no. 15 (illustrated in color, p. 141).
Further Details
Jean-Louis Delaunay and Richard Riss have confirmed the authenticity of this work.
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