Artwork Details
Artist
Creation Date
Materials
Object Types
Dimensions
20 x 29-5/16 in. (canvas) 30 x 39 x 4-5/16 in. (framed)
Mark Description
Signed and dated in red paint lower right: George Morren | 1892. Stamped in black ink on top stretcher bar and top bar of frame: O HAMMER GALLERIES New York | no. 19136-2 Inscribed in black and red felt tip ink on white tape on top bar of frame: {black} Morren | 602.67 | {red} #132 Inscribed in black crayon on left bar of frame: 22452A Label on frame: University of Utah Label on frame: B358700 / Allied Van Lines / 97 Inscribed in blue ink on right bar of frame: 7830 Inscribed in red ink on adhesive tape on right bar of frame: 7830 | Hammer... | ...
Accession Number
Credit Line
The Holliday Collection
Copyright
Collection
European Painting and Sculpture 1800-1945
Color Palette
Provenance
By inheritance to the artist's second wife, Orpha Buyssens, née Demets, [1911- ?].{1} Madame Dagieu-Sully, Paris, France.{2} (Stephen Higgons, Paris) by 1958.{3} (Hammer Galleries, New York, New York) by 1963;{4} acquired by W. J. Holliday, Indianapolis, Indiana, in 1964;{5} by bequest to the Indianapolis Museum of Art in 1979 (79.278). {1} See Tony Calabrese, George Morren, 1868-1941: Monographie générale suivie du catalogue raisonné de loeuvre, Antwerp, 2000, pp. 8, 11, 190 and catalogue no. 13. {2} Ibid, see catalogue no. 13. {3} See the advertisement in Burlington Magazine, volume 100 (November 1958), p. xxvi (illustration) for the Stephen Higgins (sic) gallery. According to the biographical details given in the on-line Collection Database of the British Museum, he was a collector-dealer whose full name was Stephen de Premorel-Higgons. {4} See the undated catalogue, Hammer Galleries, Selection from Our Extensive collection of French Impressionist and Post-Impressionist Paintings (circa 1963-64), n.p. (illustration) {5} As cited in Ellen Wardwell Lee, The Aura of Neo-Impressionism: The W.J. Holliday Collection, Indianapolis, 1983, pp. 55-57 (illustration)
Gallery Labels
- A woman seated beside a window has long been a popular subject for European painters. Here Morren applied the progressive approach of Neo-Impressionism to this traditional theme.
- The artist transformed this silent realm crowded with furnishings and keepsakes into an intricate, colorful pattern of carefully applied dots, even daring to depict the paisley shawl in both shadow and bright light.
- The twisted rods at the right are the drying racks of a stove. They add an energetic note to the motionless scene.
Exhibition History
Exhibition Name
Venue
Dates
Indianapolis Museum of Art
June 15, 2014 - September 7, 2014
Le neo-impressionnisme de Seurat a Paul Klee
Musée d'Orsay
March 15, 2005 - July 10, 2005
Les Relations Artistiques Entre la France et la Belgique de 1848 a 1914
Musée d'Orsay
March 18, 1997 - December 14, 1997
From Realism to Symbolism: The Belgian Avant-Garde
June 30, 1995 - October 15, 1995
Impressionism to Symbolism: The Belgian Avant-Garde 1880-1890
The Royal Academy of Arts London
July 7, 1994 - October 2, 1994
The Aura of Neo-Impressionism: The W.J. Holliday Collection
David and Alfred Smart Museum of Art, University of Chicago
January 14, 1988 - March 6, 1988
Neo-Impressionism: Suerat tot Struycken
Rijksmuseum
1988 - 1988
The Aura of Neo-Impressionism: The W.J. Holliday Collection
Dixon Gallery and Gardens
September 15, 1987 - November 8, 1987
The Aura of Neo-Impressionism: The W.J. Holliday Collection
Chrysler Museum of Art
June 26, 1987 - August 23, 1987
The Aura of Neo-Impressionism: The W.J. Holliday Collection
High Museum of Art
March 24, 1987 - May 17, 1987
The Aura of Neo-Impressionism: The W.J. Holliday Collection
New Orleans Museum of Art
November 15, 1986 - February 8, 1987
Exposition du Pointillisme
Kyoto Municipal Museum of Art
June 4, 1985 - July 14, 1985
Exhibition du Pointillisme
The National Museum of Western Art
April 6, 1985 - May 26, 1985
Indianapolis Museum of Art
October 21, 1980 - November 30, 1980
Neo-Impressionism
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
February 9, 1968 - April 7, 1968
French Impressionist and Post Impressionist Paintings
1963 - 1964
Hommage a Paul Signac et Ses Amis
April 15, 1955 - May 8, 1955
Exposition, Georges Morren
February 20, 1926 - March 3, 1926
Exposition des Ouvres de MM G. Hobe, F. Dubois, et G. Morren
1894 - 1894
Association pour l'Ar
1893 - 1893
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