Le Pont de Poissy (The Bridge at Poissy)

Artist Maurice de Vlaminck French, 1876–1958

Date1905

MediumOil on canvas

Dimensionsheight and width: 26 7/8 × 37 5/8 in. (68.3 × 95.6 cm)
frame: 39 15/16 × 37 5/8 in. (101.4 × 95.6 cm)

ClassificationsPaintings

Credit LineGift of Julian and Josie Robertson

Object number2023.9.2

On View

Not on view

ProvenanceCreated Poissy, France, 1905; collection of the artist, until c. 1919 [1]. [Galerie Druet, Paris]. Marie Cuttoli (1879–1973), Paris. Mrs. Stephen Higgons, Paris; [Sotheby & Co., London, July 2, 1969, no. 56, as Le Pont sur la Seine à Chatou]; Victor M. Carter, Los Angeles; [Sotheby’s, New York, November 18, 1986, no. 32]; Private Collection, New York; [Sotheby’s & Co., London, Impressionist & Modern Evening Sale, June 25, 2008,
lot 4]; Julian Hart Robertson, Jr. (1932–2022) and Josephine (Josie) Tucker Robertson (1943–2010), New York; bequeathed to NCMA, 2023.

[1] Maurice de Vlaminck had a solo exhibition at Galerie Eugène Druet in February 1919. It is unclear when Vlaminck consigned the painting to Druet and when Druet sold it to Marie Cuttoli.

Published ReferencesThe Financial Times, London, July 3, 1969.

Daily Telegraph, London, July 3, 1969.

Connoisseur, Paris, December 1969, no. 27, 281 (illus. color). [titled "Le Pont sur la Seine a Chatou"]

Maithe Vailes-Bled et al, Critical Catalogue of the Paintings and Ceramic of the Fauve Period of Maurice de Vlaminck (London: unknown, 2008), cat. no. 72, 187 (illus. color).Exhibition HistoryGeneva, Switzerland, Musée de l'Athénée, "Vlaminck," 1958, cat. no. 6.

Bern, Switzerland, Kunstmuseum, "Vlaminck," 1961, cat. no. 140. [titled "Le Pont sur la Seine a Chatou" and dated 1907–08]

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