About This Artwork

Pierre Roy
French, 1880–1959

Still Life, 1938

Oil on canvas
14 x 10 3/4 in. (35.6 x 27.3 cm)
Signed, l.r.: "P. Roy"
Bequest of Florence S. McCormick, 1979.1457

© 2008 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris

Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories

Exhibition History

Nantes, France, Ville de Nantes Musée des Beaux-Arts Les Amis du Musée, Retrospective Pierre Roy: 1880–1950, May 1953, no. 66.

Nantes, France, Musée des Beaux-Arts de Nantes, Le rêve d’une ville: Nantes et le surréalisme, December 17, 1994–April 2, 1995.

Publication History

“Vanity Issue,” Vogue Incorporating Vanity Fair 92, part 2 , no. 9 (November 1, 1938), cover (ill.), p. 53 (ill.).

Art Institute of Chicago Annual Report 1979/1980 (Chicago 1980), p. 33 (ill.)

Musée des beaux-arts and Bibliothèque municipale de Nantes, France, Pierre Roy (Paris, 1994), p. 152, no. 59, as Portrait de femme dans un miroir (1938).

Ownership History

Bernard Roy, Nantes, France, by 1953 [Nantes 1953]. Florence S. McCormick (died 1979), New York and La Grange, Ill., by 1976 [last will and testament, June 11, 1976]; bequeathed to the Art Institute, 1979.