Woman in Blue at the Beach, 1902/1904

Not on View

Medium

watercolor over graphite on wove paper

Dimensions

overall: 24.3 x 20.6 cm (9 9/16 x 8 1/8 in.)

Credit Line

Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon

Accession Number

1995.47.71

Artists / Makers

Jacques Villon (artist) French, 1875 - 1963

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Inscription

lower center in graphite: Jacques Villon; upper left stamped in brown: 2028

Provenance

(E.J. van Wisselingh & Co., Amsterdam); Mrs. Bertram L. Smith; (Helene C. Seiferheld Gallery Inc., New York); Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon, Upperville, VA, 1964; gift to NGA, 1995.

Associated Names

Mellon, Paul
Seiferheld, Helene C.
Wisselingh & Co., E.J. van

Exhibition History

1964: Jacques Villon Master Printmaker. R.M. Light and Co., and Helene C. Seiferheld Gallery, Inc., New York, 1964, no. 10.

1997: Six Centuries/Six Artists, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1997.

2016: In Celebration of Paul Mellon, NGA, 2016.

Bibliography

1964: Steegmuller, Francis. "A master of 'Volupté'."Apollo (March 1964): fig. 2.

1976: Robbins, Daniel, ed. Jacques Villon. Exh. cat. Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, 1976, under no. 15, fig. 15b.