About This Artwork

Noël-François Roger de La Fresnaye
French, 1885-1925

Symphony in Blue, March 1918

Watercolor, over traces of graphite on ivory wove paper, laid down on cream card
270 x 196 mm
Signed recto, lower right corner, in pen and black ink: "R de la Fresnaye/Mars 18"
Estate of Mima de Manziarly Porter, 1989.184

Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories

Exhibition History

New York, Jacques Seligmann and Company, "Roger de La Fresnaye: Watercolors, Gouaches, Drawings," October 30–November 20, 1947, n.p., cat. 11.

The Art Institute of Chicago, "The Broad Spectrum: Color on Paper, Past and Present," September 12–October 31, 1999, hors. cat.

Publication History

Germain Seligman, Roger de la Fresnaye with a Catalogue Raisonné (London, 1969), p. 192, no. 275 (ill.).

Ownership History

Private Collection, United States, by 1947 (or as early as 1939) [New York 1947]. Germain Seligman (1893–1978), New York, by at least 1969 [Seligman 1969]; bequeathed to Mima de Manziarly Porter, 1978 [correspondence in the Porter archives in the Art Institute]; bequeathed to the Art Institute, 1989.