Slender Woman with Vase

1894

József Rippl-Rónai (Hungarian, 1861–1927)

Status: On View, Gallery 242
Department: Painting and Sculpture of Europe

Artist: Jozseph Rippl-Rónaï
Title: Slender Woman with Vase
Place: Hungary (Artist's nationality:)
Date Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.: 1894
Medium: Oil on canvas
Dimensions: 186 × 73 cm (73 1/4 × 28 3/4 in.); Framed: 198.8 × 86.7 × 7.4 cm (78 1/4 × 34 1/8 × 2 7/8 in.)
Credit Line: Through prior gift of Mr. and Mrs. Chauncey B. Borland
Reference Number: 2011.308
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József Rippl-Rónai, Emlékezései [Memories] (Budapest: A Nyugat Kiadása, 1911), pp. 125–126, pl. between pp. 32 and 33, pl. between pp. 156 and 157.
József Rippl-Rónai, “Rippl-Rónai sur lui-même: Extrait de ses ‘Memoires’ (1911),” Nouvelle Revue de Hongrie 46 (March 1932), pl. between pp. 171 and 172.
Catalogue of an Exhibition of Contemporary Graphic Art in Hungary, Bohemia, and Austria, exh. cat. (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1914), ill. between pp. 8 and 9.
Dezső Szomory, “Karcsú nő vázával: A Rippl-Rónai aukció alkalmából,” Az Est [The Evening] (April 6, 1934), pp. 4-5 (ill).
Az Est [The Evening] (April 11, 1934), p. 10 (ill.).
Zsófia Dénes, “Egy hires magyar műgyűjtemény” [“A Famous Hungarian Art Collection”], Ünnep (March 13, 1936) (ill.).
Elek Petrovics, József Rippl-Rónai (Budapest: Athenaeum, [1942]), pp. 4, 127 (ill.).
François Gachot, Rippl-Rónai, L’Art hongrois, vol. 1 (Budapest: Institut littéraire Uj Idők S. A., [1944]), p. 11.
Robert L. Herbert, ed., Neo-Impressionists and Nabis in the collection of Arthur G. Altschul (New Haven: Yale University Art Gallery, 1965), p. 88, under cat. no. 38.
Tamás Aknai, Rippl-Rónai (Budapest: Corvina Kiadó, 1971), p. 10, pl. 4.
Judit Szabadi, A magyar szecesszió művészete: festészet, grafika, szobrászat [Hungarian Art Nouveau: Painting, Graphics, Sculpture] (Budapest: Corvina, 1979), pp. 48-9, fig. 89. Translated by John Bátki (Budapest: Corvina, 1989), p. 60, figs. 89, 103.
Judit Szabadi, “József Rippl-Rónai et l’Art Nouveau,” Acta Historiae Artium 26, 3-4 (1980), pp. 286, 298, fig. 2.
Claire Frèches-Thory and Ursula Perucchi-Petri, Die Nabis: Propheten der Moderne, exh. cat. (Zurich: Kunsthaus, 1993), p. 10 (ill.).
Mária Bernáth, József Rippl-Rónai (Budapest: Szemimpex Kiadó, 1998), pp. 59, 82, 243, 273, 281, 309, pl. XI, fig. 15.
Anna Szinyei Merse et al., József Rippl-Rónai: Le Nabi hongrois, exh. cat. (Paris: Somogy Éditions d’Art; Saint-Germain-en-Laye: Musée Départemental Maurice Denis Le Prieuré, 1998), pp. 32, 33, 62, figs. 30, 57.
Mariann Gergely et al., József Rippl-Rónai, 1861 bis 1927: Ein Ungar in Paris, exh. cat. (Heidelberg: Umschau/Braus; Frankfurt: Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt, 1999), p. 27, fig. 6.
Katalin Keserü, “In Neuilly,” in Ernst Múzeum, In Neuilly: James Pitcairn-Knowles and József Rippl-Rónai, exh. cat. (Budapest: Ernst Múzeum, 2004), pp. 34, 64.
János Vaszary, Mariann Gergely, Edit Plesznivy and Gábor Bellák, Vaszary János (1867-1939) gyujteményes kiállítása [The collected works of János Vaszary] (Budapest: Magyar Nemzeti Galéria, 2007), p. 50, fig. 38.
Péter Molnos, Szenvedély és tudás: Bedő Rudolf műgyűjteménye [Passion and Knowledge: The Rudolf Bedo Collection], exh. cat. (Budapest: Kieselbach Galéria, 2009), pp. 32, 33, back cover (ill.).

Brussels, Musée d’Art Moderne, La Libre Esthétique, deuxième exposition, February 23–April 1, 1895, cat. 549.
Budapest, Mercur Palota [Mercur Palace], Rippl-Rónai József, December 13, 1902–January 1903, no cat. no.
Kaposvár, A Somogyvármegyei művészek kaposvári kiállítása [Exhibition of the Artists of Somogy County in Kaposvár], December 15, 1907–January 3, 1908, cat. 159.
Budapest, Művészház [Artists’ House], Rippl-Rónai József retrospektív kiállítása, 1888–1911 [Retrospective Exhibition of József Rippl-Rónai], March 5–April 1911, cat. 31, as Virágvázát tartó nó [Woman holding a vase], 1893.
Berlin, Glaspalast, Grosse Berliner Kunstausstellung, 1916, cat. 36, as Dame mit Vase.
Budapest, Ernst Múzeum, Rippl-Rónai József gyűjteményes kiállítása [Collected Works of József Rippl-Rónai], November 1920, cat. 106, as Madame Leroy de Tiolles arcképe [Portrait of Madame Leroy de Tiolles], 1892.
Vienna, Kunstlerhaus, Ungarische repräsentative Kunstausstellung [Hungarian Art Exhibition], May–June, 1924, cat. 227, as Dame im schwarzen Kleid mit Vase.
Budapest, Ernst Múzeum, XXXV Csoportkiállítás [Group Exhibition], December 1925, cat. 188.
Budapest, Ernst Múzeum, Rippl-Rónai József emlékkiállítása [Memorial exhibition of József Rippl-Rónai], December 1928, cat. 229, as Karcsu nö vázát tart [Slender Woman holding a Vase], 1892.
Nuremberg, Norishalle, Ausstellung Neuzeitlicher Ungarischer Kunst [Exhibition of Modern Hungarian Art], February 23–April 14, 1929, cat. 35, as Schlanke Dame mit Vase, 1892.
Budapest, Állami Árverési Csarnok [State Auction Hall], Rippl-Rónai József művészi hagyatékának Aukciója [Auction of the Artistic Estate of József Rippl-Rónai], April 9, 1934, cat. 30, as Karcsú nó vázával (Mme Leroy d’Etiolle festómúvésznó) [Slender Woman with Vase (The Painter Mme Leroy d’Etiolle)].
Budapest, Ernst Múzeum, A Szinyei-Merse Pál Társaság Reprezentatív Kiállítása [Representative Exhibition of the Szinyei Merse Pál Society], June 1935, cat. 124, as Nó vázával [Woman with vase].
Budapest, Ernst Múzeum, Rippl-Rónai József halálának tizedik évfordulójára rendezett Emlékkiállítás [Memorial Exhibition Commemorating the 10th Anniversary of József Rippl-Rónai’s Death], November 25–December 26, 1937, cat. 45, as Karcsu nö vázával [Slender Woman with Vase].
Budapest, Gróf Almásy-Teleki Éva Művészeti Intézete [Art Institute of Countess Éva Almásy-Teleki], Bernáth Aurél és Rippl-Rónai József (1861–1927) válogatott műveinek kiállítása [Selected works of Aurél Bernáth and József Rippl-Rónai (1861–1927)], January 18–February 2, 1942, cat. 133, as Karcsú nö vázával [Slender Woman with Vase].
Budapest, Nemzeti Szalon [National Salon], Rippl-Rónai József Emlékkiállítása [Memorial Exhibition of József Rippl-Rónai], December 14–28, 1947, cat. 13, as Karcsu nö vázával [Slender Woman with Vase].
Budapest, Fővárosi Képtár [Municipal Gallery], Rippl-Rónai József Emlékkiállítása [Memorial exhibition of József Rippl-Rónai], October–November 1952, cat. 17, as Feketeruhás nő vázával [Woman in a Black Dress with a Vase].
Budapest, Magyar Nemzeti Galéria [Hungarian National Gallery], Rippl-Rónai József: centenáris kiállítása [Centenary exhibition of József Rippl-Rónai], 1961; Kaposvár, Rippl-Rónai Múzeum, 1961, cat. 9, as Karcsú nő vázával [Slender Woman with Vase].
Budapest, Magyar Nemzeti Galéria [Hungarian National Gallery], Magyar Művészet 1896–1945 [Hungarian Art 1896–1945], September–October 1969; Budapest, Ernst Múzeum, September–October 1969, no cat. no., as Karcsú nő vázával/Femme svelte avec vase.
Budapest, Magyar Nemzeti Galéria [Hungarian National Gallery], Rippl-Rónai József gyűjteményes kiállítása [The Collected Works of József Rippl-Rónai], March 12–September 6, 1998, pp. 248–251, cat. 28, as Karcsú nö vázával [Slender Woman with Vase].

József Rippl-Rónai (died 1927), Paris and Kaposvár, Hungary; by descent to his widow, Lazarine Baudrion, from 1927 to at least 1934, when she consigned it to her husband’s estate auction [Budapest 1934]; sold to Mrs. Irén Balla (née Vida, died 1939), Pécs and Budapest, Hungary, by 1936 [Dénes 1936]; by descent to her husband, Dr. Adolf Balla [according to Rudolf Bedő’s unpublished memoir; copy in curatorial file]; sold to Rudolf Bedő (died 1978), Budapest, by at least January 1942 [according to an exhibition label on verso for Budapest 1942; copy in curatorial file. See also the unpublished memoir cited above]; by descent to his wife, Mária Bedő (née Rott; died 1993), Budapest; by descent to their son, Gábor Bedő (died 2004), Budapest; by descent to his wife, Mrs. Gánéeé Bedő (née Erzsébet Magdolna Galambos) [according to Certificate of Transfer of Ownership, dated July 18, 2012; copy in curatorial file]; sold to Kieselbach Gallery, Budapest [according to certificate cited above]; sold to the Art Institute of Chicago, 2011.

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