Property from the Estate of CURTIS E. CALDER

PROPERTY FROM THE ESTATE OF CURTIS E. CALDER

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Property from the Estate of CURTIS E. CALDER

HENRI MANGUIN (1874-1949)

Jeanne dans le jardin de Neuilly

stamped with signature bottom right 'Manguin'--oil on canvas
31¾ x 25 5/8in. (80.6 x 65.1cm.)
Painted in 1919

Provenance

Mme Henri Manguin, Saint-Tropez
Guy Manguin, Brussels (grandson of the artist)
Anon. sale, Sotheby's, London, April 2, 1981, lot 389 (acquired by Curtis E. Calder)

Literature

L. and C. Manguin, Henri Manguin, Catalogue raisonné de l'oeuvre peint, Neuchâtel, 1980, no. 611 (illustrated, p. 218)

Lot Essay

The sitter in this painting is Jeanne Manguin, née Carette, whom the artist met in 1896 and married three years later. She was Manguin's most frequent model. Henri Matisse made an ink drawing of her in 1905-1906 (coll. Museum of Modern Art, New York).