Object details
Accession number
P3s1
Primary Creator
Boris Anisfeld
(Bessarabia, 1878 - 1973, Waterford, Connecticut)
Full title
Blue Sails-Concarneau I
Creation Date
1910
Provenance
Purchased by Isabella Stewart Gardner from the traveling Boris Anisfeld exhibition at the Boston Art Club on about 23 December 1918, lot 18.
Marks
Inscribed (lower left): Boris Anisfeld 1910
Dimensions
58 x 71 cm (22 13/16 x 27 15/16 in.)
Display Media
Oil on canvas
Web Commentary
Isabella Stewart Gardner kept meticulous records of many of her acquisitions. In keeping with this legacy, object information is continually being reviewed, updated, and enriched in order to give greater access to the collection.
Permanent Gallery Location
Blue Room
Bibliography
Mir iskusstva [World of Art]. Exh. cat. (Moscow, 1911), p. 3. (one of nos. 14-25, entitled "Concarnau, Porte Monche")
Mir iskusstva [World of Art]. Exh. cat. (St. Petersburg, 1911), p. 3. (one of nos. 8-18, entitled "Concarneau, Porte Monche")
Christian Brinton. The Boris Anisfeld Exhibtion. Exh. cat. (Boston: Copley Society of Boston, 1918), no. 18. (entitled "Blue Sails-Concarneau I")
Catalogue. Fenway Court. (Boston, 1921), p. 1.
Philip Hendy. Catalogue of Exhibited Paintings and Drawings (Boston, 1931), pp. 13-14. (entitled "Blue Sails-Concarneau I")
Gilbert Wendel Longstreet and Morris Carter. General Catalogue (Boston, 1935), p. 25. (entitled "Blue Sails-Concarneau I")
"Tribute to a true 'national treasure.'" Chicago Sunday Times. 23 Dec. 1973.
Philip Hendy. European and American Paintings in the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum (Boston, 1974), p. 5. (entitled "Blue Nets-Concarneau I")
Eckard Lingenauber, Olga Sugrobova-Roth, et al. Boris Anisfeld: Catalogue Raisonné (Düsseldorf, 2011), p. 127, no. P195. (entitled "Blue Sails - Concarneau (I)")
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