ARTIST
Ker-Xavier Roussel (French, 1867-1944)
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TITLE
Femmes dans la campagne

MEDIUM
Charcoal on paper
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DIMENSIONS
6 x 9 in (15.5 x 23 cm.)
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KNOWN PROVENANCE
Intérieurs, Live Auction No. 5507, Christie's, Paris, 30 January 2008, lot 124.
Dessins Anciens et Modernes, Ader, Paris, 28 March 2025, lot 150.
MD Museum, acquired at the above sale.

ACCESSION NUMBER
2025.3

EXHIBITED
Kunsthalle Bremen, Ker-Xavier Roussel, 26 September - 21 November 1965, no. 69

NOTES
Signed with initials 'KXR' (lower right).

This was exhibited at the Kunsthalle Bremen museum in Bremen, Germany in 1965, as shown by provenance sticker on the back of the frame. 
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Mr. Mathias Chivot (art historian, curator, and author of the catalogue raisonné of Ker-Xavier Roussel) provided the following information, "This drawing is a sketch for a large pastel dated around 1897. It belongs to a key period, that of the beginnings of his mythological orientation, when he left the esoteric subjects of the Nabis to work on sacred woods and the muses who busy themselves there (clear influence of Puvis de Chavannes). Roussel's Nabi works are rather rare, as most of them are reputed to have been destroyed (according to Ambroise Vollard's recollections)."​