1852 – Amsterdam – 1895
Fleurs dans un verre
oil on canvas, 35.3 x 28.4 cm
dated circa 1890
provenance:
the artist’s estate;
Marie-Jeanne Henry, Le Pouldu;
Marie Ida Cochennec, Meijer de Haan’s daughter, Rosporden;
estate of the above, Hotel Drouot, Paris, 24 juin 1959, lot 85;
Samuel Josefowitz, Pully, whom acquired it at the sale above.
exhibited:
- Minneapolis, The Minneapolis Institute of Arts, The Nabis and their Circle, november-december 1962, p. 144;
- London, The Tate Gallery, Gauguin and the Pont-Aven Group, january-february 1966, p. 35, no. 130a;
- Zurich, Kunsthaus, Pont-Aven, Gauguin und sein Kreis in der Bretagne, mars-avril 1966, p. 75, no. 197;
- Toronto, Art Gallery of Ontario et Amsterdam, Rijksmuseum Vincent van Gogh, Vincent van Gogh and the Birth of Cloisonism, janvier-juin 1981, p. 355, no. 129;
- Glasgow, The Burrell Collection et Amsterdam, Rijksmuseum Vincent van Gogh, The Age of van Gogh, Dutch Painting, 1880-1895, novembre 1990-mai 1991, no. 52;
- Tokyo, The Bunkamura Museum of Art; Kyoto, The National Museum of Modern Art; Hokkaido, Hokkaido Museum of Modern Art; Mie, Mie Prefectural Art Museum et Koriyama, Koriyama City Museum of Art, Gauguin et l’Ecole de Pont-Aven, avril-novembre 1993, p. 92, no. 73;
- Sydney, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Gauguin and the Pont-Aven School, mai-juillet 1994, p. 130 et 220, no. 78;
- Indianapolis, Indianapolis Museum of Art; Baltimore, The Walters Art Gallery; Montréal, The Montreal Museum of Fine Arts; Memphis, The Dixon Gallery and Gardens; San Diego, San Diego Museum of Art; Portland, Portland Art Museum; Boston, Museum of Fine Arts et Jérusalem, The Israel Museum, Gauguin and the School of Pont-Aven, septembre 1994-janvier 1997, p. 107, no. 78;
- München, Kunsthalle der Hypo-Kulturstiftung, Gauguin und die Schule von Pont-Aven, August – November 1998, no 80;
- Amsterdam, Musée historique juif; Paris, Musée d’Orsay et Quimper, Musée des Beaux-Arts, Meijer de Haan, Le maître caché, octobre 2009-octobre 2010, p. 95, no. 92.
literature:
- F. Dauchot, ‘Meyer de Haan en Bretagne‘, in Gazette des Beaux-Arts, 1952, vol. XL, p. 357, no. 8;
- H. H. Hofstätter, Die Entstebung des “Neuen Stils” in der französischen Malerei um 1890, Thèse, Fribourg, 1954, p. 60;
- C. Chassé, Les Nabis et leur temps, Paris, 1960, p. 183, no. 44, ill. p. 137;
- W. Jaworska, ‘Jacob Meyer de Haan’, in Nederlands Kunsthistorisch Jaarboek, 1967, Vol. 18, p. 222, no. 21.;
- W. Jaworska, Gauguin et L’Ecole de Pont-Aven, Neuchatel 1971, p. 100, ill.