Bathers
Roland Oudot, French, 1897 - 1981
1940s
Oil on canvas
Overall: 18 1/8 × 21 5/8 in. (46 × 55 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of the Friends of Dartmouth Library in memory of Nathaniel Richmond Hopkins II (1931-1956), Class of 1954
P.959.34
Geography
Place Made: France, Europe
Period
20th century
Object Name
Painting
Research Area
Painting
Not on view
Inscriptions
Signed, lower right, in white oil paint: Roland Oudet
Exhibition History
The Bathers, Watkinson Library, Trinity College, Hartford, Connecticut, for the Wallace Stevens Poetry Program, April 18-June 21, 1963.
Publication History
Alan Filreis, "Beyond the Rhetorician's Touch: Steven's Painterly Abstractions," American Literary History, Spring 1992, pp. 230-263.
Provenance
Acquired by Paule Vidal, Paris; sold to the poet Wallace Stevens (1879-1955), by 1947; Parke-Bernet Galleries, New York, Sale 1886, lot 183, March 13,1959; sold to Marjorie M. (1900-1999) and Donald Benner Hopkins (1903-1987), 1959; given to present collection, 1959.
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