Property from the Meier Family Collection
Ker-Xavier Roussel
1867 - 1944
Les Deux femmes et l’enfant
signed K X Roussel (lower right)
oil on canvas
25 ½ by 21 ¼ in.
65 by 54 cm.
Executed circa 1890-91.
To be included in the forthcoming Roussel catalogue raisonné in preparation by Mathias Chivot, Jacques Roussel & Nicolas Langlois.
Condition Report
Provenance
Félix Fénéon, Paris
Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 4 December 1941, lot 70 (consigned by the above)
Armand Salacrou, Paris (acquired from the above)
Wildenstein & Co., Inc., New York
Roger and Laura Meier, Portland (acquired from the above in 1999)
Acquired from the above by the present owner
Literature
Caroline Boyle-Turner, Les Nabis, Lausanne, 1993, no. 16, illustrated in color (detail) (dated 1890)
Exhibited
Lyon, Galerie des Archers, Exposition Bonnard, Vuillard, Roussel, Modigliani, 1928, no. 15
Paris, Musée des arts décoratifs, Cinquante ans de peintures français dans les collections particulières de Cézanne à Matisse, 1952, no. 155 (dated circa 1891)
Portland Art Museum, Paris to Portland: Impressionist and Post-Impressionist Masters in Portland Collections, 2003, n.n., p. 28, illustrated in color and p. 44
Cleveland Museum of Art and Portland Art Museum, Private Lives: Home and Family in the Art of the Nabis, Paris 1889-1900, 2021 - 2022, p. 235