Matisse, A View of the Bois de Boulogne – The collection of Baron Denys Cochin

The collection of Baron Denys Cochin

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A View of the Bois de Boulogne
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Bought from Vollard in mid-May 1906 with a small landscape, on folio 93 of the dealer’s register, where another entry bears the date of 17 May^{[1, 2]}. Two years later, on 28 April 1908, Vollard sold Shchukin, for 800 francs, a View of the Bois de Boulogne of 1902, 65 × 81, now in the Pushkin Museum in Moscow^[3]. If the dealer had only one, it is Denys Cochin’s, back in the rue Laffitte in between like so many of his purchases; the receipts of the collection kept in photocopy at the Getty Research Institute would tell^{[3, 4]}.
In his hands: Came in May 1906, from Vollard
Sources (4)
1. 1.Rebecca A. Rabinow (dir.), Cézanne to Picasso: Ambroise Vollard, Patron of the Avant-Garde, New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2006, p. 39, 53, 129, 137, 149, 223, 271 et 395, et notice 42 par Jayne S. Warman, Paul Cézanne, The Cardplayers (pages transmises par la famille) ; p. 246 et n. 13, fig. 149 et notes, lues par la recherche plein texte d’Internet Archive (cezannetopicasso0000unse), p. 129, note 3, et p. 137.
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  « In May 1906 Denys Cochin acquired a Derain and two Matisses (MS 421 [5,1], fol. 93). […] In mid-May Denys Cochin purchased two paintings by Matisse: a view of the Bois de Boulogne and a small landscape. »
2. 2.Rebecca A. Rabinow (dir.), Cézanne to Picasso: Ambroise Vollard, Patron of the Avant-Garde, New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2006, p. 39, 53, 129, 137, 149, 223, 271 et 395, et notice 42 par Jayne S. Warman, Paul Cézanne, The Cardplayers (pages transmises par la famille) ; p. 246 et n. 13, fig. 149 et notes, lues par la recherche plein texte d’Internet Archive (cezannetopicasso0000unse), note citant le folio 93 du registre MS 421 (5,1), celui de l’achat de Cochin.
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  « “un Picasso”: Vollard Archives, MS 421 (5,1), fol. 93, May 17, 1906. »
3. 3.Rebecca A. Rabinow (dir.), Cézanne to Picasso: Ambroise Vollard, Patron of the Avant-Garde, New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2006, p. 39, 53, 129, 137, 149, 223, 271 et 395, et notice 42 par Jayne S. Warman, Paul Cézanne, The Cardplayers (pages transmises par la famille) ; p. 246 et n. 13, fig. 149 et notes, lues par la recherche plein texte d’Internet Archive (cezannetopicasso0000unse), p. 137 ; p. 246 et n. 13 ; fig. 149 (cat. 434).
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  « Two years later, on April 28, 1908, Vollard sold three paintings by Matisse, at a price of 800 francs each […]. The “landscape” by Matisse in the entry of April 28, 1908, was none other than the View of the Bois de Boulogne (fig. 149), and the “Still life” paired with it was Dishes and Fruit (1901). […] Henri Matisse, View of the Bois de Boulogne, 1902. Oil on canvas, 65 × 81 cm. »
4. 4.Getty Research Institute, Special Collections, Miscellaneous papers regarding Ambroise Vollard, 1890-1939, accession 2001.M.24, réunis par Gerrard White : inventaire (finding aid), boîte 5, dossier 4, « Baron Denys Cochin papers », box 5, folder 4.
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  « Baron Denys Cochin papers, undated. Scope and Contents note: Circa 120 pp of documents concerning the Cochin collection, with receipts and letters from dealers, invoices, lists of paintings sold. Photocopies. […] This collection was assembled by Gerrard White from various sources including Maurice Malingue, the family of André Mellerio, Baron Denys Cochin, the heirs of André Clot, John Rewald, and Louis Sébastien. »