Lot 3234* - A215 Impressionist & Modern Art - Friday, 28. November 2025, 04.30 PM
HENRI CHARLES MANGUIN
(Paris 1874–1949 Saint-Tropez)
Femme endormie, petite Marie. 1911.
Oil on canvas.
Signed lower right: Manguin.
92 × 73 cm.
Provenance:
- Arthur Hahnloser, Winterthur.
- Lucie Druet, Paris, 1927.
- Private collection, France, 1938 acquired from the above.
- Richard Green Gallery, London.
- Private collection, London.
Exhibited:
- Paris 1913, Manguin, Galerie E. Druet, 28 April – 10 May 1913, no. 12 (verso with label).
- Roanne 2008/09, Henri Lebasque, Henri Manguin. Palettes postimpressionniste et fauve en Méditerranée, Musée des Beaux-Arts et d'Archéologie Joseph Déchelette, 25 October 2008–19 April 2009 (verso with label).
- Les Baux-de-Provence 2019, Fauvisme et Harmonie – autour d'Henri Manguin, Musée Yves Brayer, 4 May – 10 October 2019 (verso with label).
Literature:
"Femme endormie, Petite Marie" was created in 1911 by Henry Manguin at his studio in Neuilly-sur-Seine. The subject is the eponymous "Petit Marie," one of his favorite models from 1910 to 1913. Depicted here asleep, with a tender, gentle intimacy somewhere between private abandon and the grace of an "odalisque." The soft, simplified lines of the female body and subtle play of light and shadow combine with the luminous color palette of Fauvism, which Manguin had mastered by 1905. The oriental embroidered divan on which the nude is seated seems to dissolve as if in a dream.
With this work, Manguin deliberately draws on the tradition of the female nude in French art, from Boucher and Ingres, through Manet and Degas, to Renoir, whose cheerful, life-affirming sensuality he especially valued.
The painting was once owned by the collector Dr. Arthur Hahnloser, a close friend of the artist and an important patron of the French avant-garde. Manguin met him through Félix Vallotton in 1910 and he stayed with the Hahnlosers in Winterthur that same year. The couple played a central role in the promotion Manguin's work in Switzerland and supported him in the following years.
With this work, Manguin deliberately draws on the tradition of the female nude in French art, from Boucher and Ingres, through Manet and Degas, to Renoir, whose cheerful, life-affirming sensuality he especially valued.
The painting was once owned by the collector Dr. Arthur Hahnloser, a close friend of the artist and an important patron of the French avant-garde. Manguin met him through Félix Vallotton in 1910 and he stayed with the Hahnlosers in Winterthur that same year. The couple played a central role in the promotion Manguin's work in Switzerland and supported him in the following years.
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