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Christmas Night (The Blessing of the Oxen)

1902-1903

1998.169

On display in H206

oil paintcanvaspainting

Artwork Details

Artist
Creation Date
1902-1903
Materials
oil on canvas
Object Types
paintings, oil paintings
Dimensions

27-15/16 x 32-1/2 in. (canvas) 38-3/8 x 43 x 2-5/16 in. (framed, Optium)

Mark Description

Signed lower right: P. Gauguin

Accession Number
1998.169
Credit Line

Samuel Josefowitz Collection of the School of Pont-Aven, through the generosity of Lilly Endowment Inc., the Josefowitz Family, Mr. and Mrs. James M. Cornelius, Mr. and Mrs. Leonard J. Betley, Lori and Dan Efroymson, and other Friends of the Museum

Copyright
Public Domain
Collection

European Painting and Sculpture 1800-1945

Color Palette

Possibly from the artist to Victor Ségalen.{1} To (Ambroise Vollard [1867-1939], Paris, France) by 1906.{2} Probably via (Étienne Bignou [1891-1950], New York) to Mr. and Mrs. Marvin Small by 1956;{3} sold at auction at Christie's, London, England, by Sylvia Carewe [1914-1981], Marvin Small's ex-wife in 1966;{4} purchased by Douglas Cooper [1911-1984], London.{5} Probably directly from Cooper to Samuel Josefowitz by 1967;{6} acquired as a partial gift, partial purchase by the Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis, Indiana, in 1998 (1998.169). {1} There is confusion over whether this painting could be the "Village sous la neige" listed in the last shipment of works sent by Gauguin from Tahiti to Vollard or the second "étude faite en Bretagne" acquired by Ségalen at the 1903 posthumous sale of Gauguin's belongings. See Georges Wildenstein, Gauguin, volume 1, Paris 1964, catalogue raisonné no. 519 (illustration) and Jean de Rotonchamp, Paul Gauguin, 1848-1903, Paris 1925, p. 221. {2} It was included in the 1906 Salon d'Automne exhibition, catalogue no. 69, "La Bénédiction des Boeufs", as Collection Vollard. See Donald Gordon, Modern Art Exhibitions 1900-1916, volume II, 1974, p. 172. {3} Vollard's friend and colleague, Étienne Bignou, had opened a New York branch of the Bignou gallery in 1935. In 1936 this painting was sent to New York by Vollard for the Wildenstein & Co. retrospective, Paul Gauguin, 1848-1903, 20 March-18 April 1936, catalogue no.7. On this exhibition, see also A.M. Frankfurter, "Gauguin: Fifty Paintings in a First American One Man Loan Exhibition," Art News, 21 March 1936, p. 6 (illustration) This painting was lent by "Mr. and Mrs. Marvin Small" to the Loan Exhibition Gauguin, Wildenstein, New York, New York, 5 April-5 May1956, catalogue no. 42 (illustration) {4} See Catalogue of Important Impressionist and Modern Drawings, Paintings and Sculpture, Christie, Manson and Woods, London, 2 December 1966, lot 62 (illustration) {5} Published auction price list indicates it was purchased by Cooper. {6} It is listed as "M. et Mme. Samuel Josefowitz, Lausanne" in the exhibition catalogue Chefs-d'ouevre des collections suisses de Manet à Picasso, Orangerie des Tuileries, Paris, 1967, catalogue no. 98 (illustration)



Exhibition Name

Venue

Dates

Through Vincent's Eyes: Van Gogh and His Sources

Columbus Museum of Art

November 12, 2021 - February 6, 2022

The Night of Van Gogh. The Night of Tutankhamen. Evenings and Nocturnes from the Ancient Egyptians to the Twentieth Century

Basilica Palladiana

December 24, 2014 - June 2, 2015

Paul Gauguin, Artista di Mito e Sogno

Complesso del Vittoriano

October 5, 2007 - February 3, 2008

Gauguin - Van Gogh: L'avventura del Colore Nuovo

Museo di Santa Giulia

October 22, 2005 - March 26, 2006

L'aventure de Pont-Aven et Gauguin

Musée des Beaux-Arts de Quimper

July 12, 2003 - September 30, 2003

L'aventure de Pont-Aven et Gauguin

Musée du Luxembourg

April 2, 2003 - June 22, 2003

Gauguin and the School of Pont-Aven from the Collection of Samuel Josefowitz

Indianapolis Museum of Art

March 28, 1999 - August 1, 1999

(exhibition title unknown)

Museum of Fine Arts Boston

1994 - 1995

Gauguin and the School of Pont-Aven

Indianapolis Museum of Art

September 8, 1994 - October 23, 1994

Gauguin and the School of Pont-Aven

Art Gallery of New South Wales

May 13, 1994 - July 24, 1994

Le Cercle de Gauguin en Bretagne

Musée de Pont-Aven

1994 - 1994

Post-Impressionism: Cross Currents in European and American Painting, 1880-1906

National Gallery of Art

May 25, 1980 - September 1, 1980

Vom Licht zur Farbe

1977 - 1977

Gauguin

Wildenstein & Company, Inc.

April 4, 1956 - May 5, 1956

Gauguin

Fogg Art Museum

March 20, 1936 - April 18, 1936

Gauguin

Wildenstein & Company, Inc.

1936 - 1936

Gauguin Retrospective

Baltimore Museum of Art

1936 - 1936

Salon d'Automne

1906 - 1906

Gauguin and the Pont-Aven Group

Tate Britain

Dates Unknown

Post-Impressionism: Cross Currents in European and American Painting, 1880-1906

The Royal Academy of Arts London

Dates Unknown

French Painting of the Last Half of the 19th Century

North Carolina Museum of Art

1956 - Date Unknown


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