Still Life with Bottles

© Amédée Ozenfant / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris
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Still Life with Bottles

France, 1922
Paintings
Oil on canvas
51 1/8 × 38 1/4 in. (129.86 × 97.16 cm)
Gift of Ilene and James A. Nathan and purchased with funds provided by Merle Oberon (M.86.142)
Modern Art
Not currently on public view

Provenance

The artist (1886-1966).

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The artist (1886-1966). [Galerie de l’Effort Moderne (Léonce Rosenberg), Paris]; sold by 1939 to Robert Allerton (1873-1964), Chicago [1]; bequeathed in 1964 to his adopted son, John Wyatt Gregg Allerton (1899-1986), Chicago and Hawaii; [sold in 1986 through Barbara Mathes Gallery, New York]; to LACMA.

[1]: In his memoir, the artist mentions in an entry on 22 March 1939 that he had seen the painting hanging in Allerton's Chicago apartment. See Amédée Ozenfant, Mémoires (1886-1962) (Paris: B. Arthaud, 1962), 373. Robert Allerton was an architect and collector, an active trustee (since 1919) and Honorary President (1959) of the Art Institute of Chicago.

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Bibliography

  • Guénégan, Pierre, Viveca Bosson, Margaret Guénégan, and Marc Larock. Amédée Ozenfant: catalogue raisonné de l'œuvre peint. St Alban, UK: Lanwell & Leeds, 2012.
  • Eliel, Carol S. L'Esprit Nouveau:  Purism in Paris 1918-1925. Los Angeles:  Museum Associates, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 2001.
  • Guénégan, Pierre, Viveca Bosson, Margaret Guénégan, and Marc Larock. Amédée Ozenfant: catalogue raisonné de l'œuvre peint. St Alban, UK: Lanwell & Leeds, 2012.
  • Eliel, Carol S. L'Esprit Nouveau:  Purism in Paris 1918-1925. Los Angeles:  Museum Associates, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 2001.
  • Ducros, François.  Amédée Ozenfant.  Paris: Éditions Cercle d'Art, 2002.
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