La Java

Modern Art

1925

Georges Emile Capon
French, 1890-1980

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Modern Art

Artist: Georges Emile Capon
Title: La Java
Place: France (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.: 1925
Medium: Oil on canvas
Inscriptions: Sign: l.l. Capon 25
Dimensions: 73 × 62.2 cm (28 3/4 × 24 1/2 in.)
Credit Line: Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Carter H. Harrison
Reference Number: 1937.377
Copyright: © 2018 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris

Galerie B. Weill, Georges Capon: Peintures et Dessins, exh. cat. (Paris: Galerie B. Weill, 1926), n.p. cat. 9.
Art Institute of Chicago, Exhibition of Paintings from the Collection of Carter H. Harrison, exh. cat. (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1929), n.p., cat. 4, as La Java—(the Javanese).
Art Institute of Chicago, Paintings in the Art Institute of Chicago: A Catalogue of the Picture Collection (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1961), p. 66, as La Java.
Jean Clair, ed., The 1920s: Age of the Metropolis, exh. cat. (Montreal, Quebec, Canada: Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, 1991), pp. 346 (ill.), 511, no. 64, fig. 452, La Java, 1925.

Paris, Galerie B. Weill, Georges Capon: Peintures et Dessins, May 31–June 12, cat. 9.
Art Institute of Chicago, Exhibition of Paintings from the Collection of Carter H. Harrison, July 18–October 14, 1929, cat. 4, as La Java—(the Javanese).
Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, The 1920s: Age of the Metropolis, June 20–November 10, 1991, cat. 64, La Java, 1925.

Mr. and Mrs. Carter H. Harrison, Chicago, by 1929 [Chicago 1929]; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, Dec. 14, 1937.

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