Lot n° 97
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Edouard MANET (1832-1883)
Le Chien "Minnay", 1879.
Oil on canvas.
Signed lower right.
32.8 x 24.8 cm.
Provenance:
- Given by Manet to Miss Marguerite Gauthier-Lathuille
- By descent to the present owner.
Bibliography:
- M. L. Bataille, "Manet beim Père Lathuille", Kunst und Künstler, February 1930, pp.188 (ill.), 204, 206.
- P. Jamot and G. Wildenstein, Manet, catalogue critique, Paris, Les Beaux-Arts, 1932, n°327.
- D. Rouart and S. Orienti, Tout l'oeuvre peint d'Edouard Manet, Paris, 1970, n°272.
- A. Tabarant, 1947, Manet et ses œuvres, Paris, Gallimard, p.354, n°318.
- Denis Rouart and Daniel Wildenstein, Catalogue Raisonné d'Edouard Manet, Edition Bibliothèque des Arts, Paris, 1975, volume I, p.232, reproduced under n°293, p.233.
- Greg Allen, Manet paints dog, https://greg.org/archive/2020/07/24/manet-paints-dog.html
Enclosed is:
A set of documents belonging to the Gauthier-Lathuille/Joliot family, transmitted at the same time as the painting in the progeny, relating to various commercial negotiations concerning the various Manet paintings that belonged to the family:
- Reproduction of a stamped invoice for the sale of a navy issued by Edouard Manet to M. Gauthier-Lathuille, dated July 29, 1881.
- Two letters from the Galerie Paul Rosenberg proposing to Mrs. Joliot to sell her 1927 painting, one annotated in pencil "offers 125,000 frs".
- A copy in ink dated 1927 of Mrs. Joliot's reply indicating that she "does not want to make a price" but annotated "in July 26 offers 2000 dollars" and in pencil "... offered 190,000".
- A 1929 handwritten letter from Miss Bataille to Mrs. Gauthier-Lathuille on the advice of Mr. Rosenberg asking to see Manet's works and documents for a work on Manet.
- A handwritten invoice dated March 28, 1929 for the sale at the Galerie Brame of a painting by Manet 350,000 F [Oloron -Sainte-Marie, today in the Bührle-Zürich collection].
- Eight letters from 1966 to 1974 from the Galerie Schmit in Paris addressed to the owners of "Minnay", asking them to lend or sell their painting.
CONDITION REPORT ON REQUEST Le Chien Minnay
Executed in 1879 and preserved to this day in the descendants of its owner Marguerite Gauthier-Lathuille, the portrait of Minnay has never been exhibited.
Its existence is however well attested. A letter from historian M. L. Bataille, dated 1929, requests an examination of Manet's painting(s) from the Gauthier-Lathuille family and related documents. She then collected Marguerite's testimony and the reproduction of this painting for the publication in 1930 of her article "Manet beim Père Lathuille", in Kunst und Künstler. The portrait of Minnay is then present in various works, including the catalogue raisonné of the painted work of Edouard Manet by Wildenstein and Rouart (WR n°293) illustrated by an old black and white reproduction.
Minnay has repeatedly aroused the envy of major players in the art world, as the various correspondences annexed to this article reveal.[1]
Only eight portraits of small dogs between 1875 and 1883, commissioned objects or gifts from the artist to both male and female personalities in his entourage, often close friends, are recorded. Two are kept at the National Gallery in Washington, D.C., and one at the Paul Getty Foundation, Los Angeles.
We know that Manet painted very quickly; witnesses assure us that Minnay was abducted in about twenty minutes. The artist captures both the moment and the movement. The shiny and fast brush, the sketchy modeling of shapes are characteristic of his art and one of his contributions to modern painting.
Edouard Manet and the Gautier-Lathuille family
The cabaret and then renowned restaurant "Le Père Lathuille" located at 7 avenue de Clichy on the edge of the village of Batignolles, was founded by an ancestor of Marguerite at the end of the 18th century. Its location is ideal for artists. The most popular, the Café Guerbois, is next to number 9 of the avenue and adjoins the shop of the colour and artists' materials merchant Hennequin, Manet's supplier. His last studio, after 1878, is located nearby, 77 rue d'Amsterdam. Many artists at odds with academism, all close or intimate friends of Manet (Renoir, Monet, Sisley, Guillemet, Fantin-Latour, Bazille...) but also personalities, writers, musicians and poets (Mallarmé, Zola, Antonin Proust, Nadar, Saint-Saëns, Chabrier...).
Manet's relationship with the Gauthier-Lathuille family was close, since in the same year 1879, the painter produced no less than four related works: the innkeeper's children, Louis in pastel (WR, vol.II, n°12, private collection) and Marguerite on canvas, his dog Minnay, and finally the famous and
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