Paul Sérusier
Washerwomen

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Artist Paul Sérusier (French, 1864–1927)French, 1864–1927

CultureFrench

Titles

Washerwomen

Datec. 1891–1892

PlaceFrance

MediumOil on canvas

DimensionsCanvas: 35 3/8 × 29 in. (89.9 × 73.7 cm)
Frame: 44 3/4 × 37 7/8 in. (113.7 × 96.2 cm)

Credit LineJohn A. and Audrey Jones Beck Collection, gift of Audrey Jones Beck

Object number98.300

Current Location

The Audrey Jones Beck Building

225 Beck Galleries

Exposé

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Department

European Art, Beck Collection

Special Collections

Object Type

PAINTING

ProvenanceMrs. Ralph Sanger (née Virginia Sturges Osborn, 1882–1955), Garrison, New York, possibly by 1918; by 1936 [1] [2]; [Paul Rosenberg, (Paris, 1881–Neuilly-sur-Seine, France, 1959), New York, after 1946]; Mrs. Edwin C. Vogel (née Florence G., c. 1891–New York, 1960), New York [3]; [M. Knoedler & Co., New York] [4]; Mr. And Mrs. Winifred Payne (née Wynne; 1914–New York, 2004) and Larry (New York, 1906–New York, 2001) Aldrich, New York, by 1958 [5]; [Galerie Daniel Malingue, Paris]; [Galerie H. Odermott, Paris, by May 1989]; purchased by Mrs. Audrey Jones Beck, Houston, 1989; given to MFAH, 1998.

[1] Odermatt lists “Mme Ralph Sanger” which was Virginia S. Osborn’s name until 1918 or 1920 at the latest. She married Sanger (1882–1918) in 1904 and after his death during World War I, she married Robert Gordon McKay (1877–1958) in 1920. Source: https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/52475078/virginia_sturges_sanger_mckay (Accessed by Julia May Boddewyn, 17 December 2024). As Mrs. Robert McKay, she was the lender of the painting to the Gauguin show in San Francisco in 1936.

[2] Odermatt also lists Mme Robert McKay. See the above note.

[3] The Papers of the Paul Rosenberg Gallery included no mention of a sale of the work to Vogel. The Paul Rosenberg Archives, A Gift of Elaine and Alexandre Rosenberg, Museum of Modern Art Archives, New York.

[4] Knoedler’s involvement in this sale cannot be confirmed. Neither Vogel nor Aldrich was found to be listed in the stockbooks between 1928 and 1970. Knoedler Gallery Archive, Getty Research Institute.

[5] Their collection was exhibited beginning in January 1959.

Exhibition HistoryThe San Francisco Museum of Art, 1936.

Wildenstein and Co., New York, 1946.

"Collection of M. and Mme. Aldrich," The Virginia Museum of Fine Art, Richmond, 1959.

The American Federation of the Arts, New York, 1960–62.

University of California, Berkeley, 1960.

Albany Institute of History and Art, 1961.

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