id: 84662 accession number: 2020.107 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/2020.107 updated: 2024-03-26 01:55:53.703000 The Orange Christ, 1889. Maurice Denis (French, 1870–1943). Oil on board; unframed: 23.8 x 18.9 cm (9 3/8 x 7 7/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Nancy F. and Joseph P. Keithley Collection Gift 2020.107 title: The Orange Christ title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: 1889 creation date earliest: 1889 creation date latest: 1889 current location: 222 Impressionism & Post-Impressionism creditline: Nancy F. and Joseph P. Keithley Collection Gift copyright: --- culture: France technique: oil on board department: Modern European Painting and Sculpture collection: Mod Euro - Painting 1800-1960 type: Painting find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS * Maurice Denis (French, 1870–1943) - artist --- measurements: Unframed: 23.8 x 18.9 cm (9 3/8 x 7 7/16 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: inscription: vertical studio monogram, lower left translation: remark: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: Impressionism to Modernism: The Keithley Collection opening date: 2022-09-11T04:00:00 Impressionism to Modernism: The Keithley Collection. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (September 11, 2022-January 8, 2023). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS * {'description': 'Maurice Denis. Galerie Beaux-Arts, Paris, France (1963).', 'opening_date': '1963-01-01T00:00:00'} * {'description': 'Maurice Denis. Musée Toulouse-Lautrec, Albi, France (June 28-September 29, 1963).', 'opening_date': '1963-06-28T00:00:00'} * {'description': 'Maurice Denis. Wildenstein Gallery, London, United Kingdom (1964).', 'opening_date': '1964-01-01T00:00:00'} * {'description': 'Maurice Denis et les Nabis. Musée des beaux-arts, Angers, France (June 1-August 31, 1967).', 'opening_date': '1967-06-01T00:00:00'} * {'description': 'Maurice Denis. Orangerie des Tuilleries, Paris, France (June 1-August 31, 1970).', 'opening_date': '1970-06-01T00:00:00'} * {'description': "Maurice Denis. Salles d'Exposition du Grenier à Sel, Honfleur, France (July - Aug. 1975).", 'opening_date': '1975-07-01T00:00:00'} * {'description': 'Vincent van Gogh and the Birth of Cloisonism. Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Ontario (January 24 - March 22, 1981); Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, Netherlands (April 9 - 14 June 1981).', 'opening_date': '1981-01-24T00:00:00'} * {'description': "Maurice Denis - 100 ans apres a Alencon. Musée des Beaux-Arts de la Dentelle d'Alencon, Alencon, France (July 6-September 29, 1985).", 'opening_date': '1985-07-06T00:00:00'} * {'description': 'Le chemin de Gauguin : genese et rayonnement. Musée du Prieure, Yvelines, France (October 7, 1985- March 2, 1986).', 'opening_date': '1985-10-07T00:00:00'} * {'description': 'The Spiritual in Art: Abstract Painting 1890-1985. Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA organizer) (November 23, 1986-March 8, 1987); Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL (April 17-July 19, 1987); Haags Gemeentemuseum, (September 1-November 22, 1987).', 'opening_date': '1987-04-17T00:00:00'} * {'description': 'Maurice Denis, 1870-1943. Musée des Beaux-Arts, Lyon, France (September 29-December 18, 1994); Wallraf-Richarts Museum, Cologne, Germany (January 22-April 2,1995); Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool, United Kingdom (April 21-June 18, 1995); Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam, Netherlands (July 7-September 17, 1995).', 'opening_date': '1994-09-29T00:00:00'} * {'description': 'Gauguin’s Vision. Royal Scottish Academy Building, Edinburgh, Scotland (July 6- October 2, 2005).', 'opening_date': '2005-07-06T00:00:00'} --- PROVENANCE The artist's studio date: footnotes: citations: By descent to the artist’s son, Jean-François Denis [1915–2004], Alençon, France date: footnotes: *
[1] According to Anne Distel, Maurice Denis (Paris: Ministère d'État, Affaires culturelles, 1970), cat. no. 7, the painting was in the collection of J.F. Denis, Alençon. 
citations: (Galerie Hopkins Custot, Paris, France, March 21, 2007, sold to Nancy F. and Joseph P. Keithley) date: by 2005–2007 footnotes: *
[2] According to Belinda Thomson, Frances Fowle, and Lesley Stevenson, Gauguin’s Vision (Edinburgh: National Galleries of Scotland, 2005), p. 83, fig. 102, ill.
citations: Nancy F. and Joseph P. Keithley, Cleveland, OH, given to the Cleveland Museum of Art date: 2007–2020 footnotes: citations: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH date: 2020– footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS Musée Toulouse-Lautrec. Exposition Maurice Denis; peintures, aquarelles, dessins, lithographies, du 28 juin au 29 septembre 1963, Musée Toulouse-Lautrec. Albi.1963. page number: Mentioned: P. 21, cat. no. 5 url: Angers. Maurice Denis & les Nabis: exposition Musée des Beaux-Arts d'Angers, du 1er juin au 31 août 1967. Angers, France: Le Musée, 1967. page number: Mentioned: no. 2 url: Distel, Anne. Maurice Denis. Orangerie des Tuileries, 3 juin-31 août 1970. Paris, France: Ministère d'État, Affaires culturelles, 1970. page number: Mentioned: no. 7 url: Maurice Denis, 1870-1943. Honfleur, France: Societe des artistes Honfleurais, 1975. page number: Mentioned: no. 3 url: Welsh-Ovcharov, Bogomila, and Vincent van Gogh. Vincent Van Gogh and the Birth of Cloisonism. Toronto: Art Gallery of Ontario, 1981. page number: Mentioned and Reproduced: p. 380, no. 143 url: Welsh-Ovcharov, Bogomila. Vincent Van Gogh and the Birth of Cloisonism. Toronto, Ontario: Art Gallery of Ontario, 1981. page number: Reproduced: p. 380, no. 143 url: Janin-Juvigny, Sophie, Françoise Ramassamy, and Guy Taburet. 100 ans après à Alençon: 6 juillet-29 septembre 1985, Musée des beaux-arts et de la dentelle. Alençon, France: Le Musée, 1985. page number: Reproduced: p. 25, no. 19 url: Le chemin de Gauguin: genèse et rayonnement. Saint-Germain-en-Laye, France: Musée départemental du Prieuré, 1985. page number: Reproduced: P. 94 url: Tuchman, Maurice, Judi Freeman, and Carel Blotkamp. The Spiritual in Art: Abstract Painting 1890-1985. New York: Abbeville Press, 1986. page number: Reproduced: P. 353-354 url: Musée des Beaux Arts, Wallraf-Richartz Museum, Walker Art Gallery, and Van Gogh Museum. Maurice Denis: 1870-1943. Paris, France: Réunion des Musées Nationaux, 1994. page number: Mentioned and Reproduced: P. 139, no. 19 url: Thomson, Belinda, Frances Fowle, and Lesley Stevenson. Gauguin's Vision. Edinburgh: National Galleries of Scotland, 2005. page number: Mentioned and reproduced: P. 83, fig. 102 url: --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/2020.107/2020.107_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/2020.107/2020.107_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/2020.107/2020.107_full.tif