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HENRI 'LE DOUANIER' ROUSSEAU (1844-1910)
Les Flamants
signed 'Henri Rousseau' (lower left)
oil on canvas
44 7/8 x 63 1/4 in. (113.8 x 162 cm.)
Painted in 1910
Provenance
Wilhelm Uhde, Paris (probably acquired from the artist, 1910, until at least 1912).
Paul and Charlotte (Lotte) von Mendelssohn-Bartholdy, Berlin (by 1926).
Paul von Mendelssohn-Bartholdy, Berlin (1927).
Elsa von Kesselstatt, Vaduz (by descent from the above, 1935).
M. Knoedler & Co., Inc. and Rudolf Heinemann, New York (acquired from the above through Walter Feilchenfeldt, Zurich, 2 September 1949).
Charles S. and Joan Whitney Payson, New York (acquired from the above, October 1949).
By descent from the above to the late owner.
Literature
A. Warnod, Comoedia, 30 October 1912.
R. Grey, “Henri Rousseau” in Action: Cahiers de philosophie et d'art, vol. 2, no. 7, May 1921 (illustrated; titled La berge aux flamants).
A. Basler, Henri Rousseau Sa vie—son oeuvre, Paris, 1927, p. 11 (illustrated, pl. 41; dated 1906).
A. Salmon, Henri Rousseau dit Le Douanier, Paris, 1927, p. 140, no. 32 (illustrated).
P. Soupault, Henri Rousseau Le Douanier, Paris, 1927 (illustrated, pl. 30; dated circa 1907).
C. Zervos, Henri Rousseau Paris, 1927, p. 111 (illustrated, p. 64).
Der Querschnitt, vol. IX, no. 6, June 1929 (illustrated).
C. Burrows, “Letter from New York” in Apollo: A Journal of the Arts, vol. 13, January 1931, p. 181.
C. Einstein, Die Kunst des 20. Jahrhunderts, Berlin, 1931, p. 636 (illustrated in color, pl. IV).
R. Flint, “Henri Rousseau has his First One Man Show” in The Art News, vol. 29, no. 14, 3 January 1931, pp. 3-4.
C.J. Bulliet, The Significant Moderns and their Pictures, New York, 1936, no. 135 (illustrated).
R. Grey, Henri Rousseau Paris, 1943, no. 127 (illustrated).
D. Cooper, Rousseau, Paris, 1951, p. 58.
Lo Duca, Henri Rousseau dit Le Douanier, Paris, 1951, p. 12 (illustrated).
Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Charles S. Payson, New York, 1960 (illustrated in color).
J. Bouret, Henri Rousseau Neuchâtel, 1961, pp. 227 and 260, no. 185 (illustrated, p. 227; dated 1907).
D. Vallier, Henri Rousseau Paris, 1961, p. 309, no. 151 (illustrated; dated 1907).
J. Bouret, Henri Rousseau London, 1962, no. 25 (illustrated).
O. Bihalji-Merin, Leben und Werk des Malers Henri Rousseau Dresden, 1971, pp. 44 and 149 (illustrated, pl. 50).
C. Keay, Henri Rousseau Le Douanier, New York, 1976, p. 35.
R. Alley, Portrait of a Primitive: The Art of Henri Rousseau New York, 1978, p. 71 (illustrated, pl. 60; dated circa 1907).
F. Elgar, Henri Rousseau Paris, 1980, no. 46 (illustrated; dated 1907).
C. Stabenow, Die Urwaldbilder des Henri Rousseau Stilbildung und Verhältnis zum Gesamtwerk, PhD. Diss., Munich, 1980, pp. 27, 101, 105, 194, 200 and 236.
Y. Le Pichon, Le monde du Douanier Rousseau, Paris, 1981 (illustrated in color).
D. Vallier, Tout l’oeuvre peint de Henri Rousseau Paris, 1982, p. 107, no. 196 (illustrated; illustrated again in color, pl. XXXVI; dated 1907).
H. Certigny, Le Douanier Rousseau en son temps, Tokyo, 1984, vol. II, p. 690, no. 318 (illustrated, p. 691) and 1991, vol. III, p. 4.
W. Schmalenbach, Henri Rousseau Dreams of the Jungle, Munich, 1998, p. 40 (illustrated in color; dated circa 1907).
Exhibited
Paris, Galerie Bernheim-Jeune et Cie., Henri Rousseau October-November 1912, no. 10 (titled La forêt vierge).
Berlin, Galerie Flechtheim, Henri Rousseau March 1926, p. 28, no. 29 (illustrated, p. 31).
New York, Marie Harriman Gallery, Henri Rousseau January 1931, no. 13 (illustrated).
New Haven, Yale University Art Gallery, Pictures Collected by Yale Alumni, May-June 1956, no. 151 (illustrated).
Paris, Galerie Charpentier, Henri Rousseau dit “Le Douanier", February-April 1961, no. 54 (illustrated; dated 1907).
Paris, Galeries nationales du Grand Palais and New York, The Museum of Modern Art, Le Douanier Rousseau, September 1984-June 1985, p. 192, no. 37 (illustrated in color, p. 193; dated circa 1907).
Kunsthalle Tübingen, Henri Rousseau Der Zöllner, Grenzgänger zur Moderne, February-June 2001, pp. 206-208, no. 42 (illustrated in color, p. 207; detail illustrated in color, p. 205; dated 1907).
London, Tate Modern and Washington, D.C., National Gallery of Art, Henri Rousseau Jungles in Paris, November 2005-October 2006, pp. 111, 117 and 223, no. 24 (illustrated in color, p. 117; detail illustrated in color, p. 110, fig. 80; dated 1907).
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