Blue Sails - Concarneau I
painter
Boris Anisfeld
(Bessarabia, 1878 - 1973, Waterford, Connecticut)
Date1910
Place MadeFrance, Europe
MediumOil on canvas
Dimensions58 x 71 cm (22 13/16 x 27 15/16 in.)
ClassificationsPaintings
Credit LineIsabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston
Accession numberP3s1
eMuseum ID721708
EmbARK ObjectID10926
TMS Source ID185
Last Updated11/6/24
Status
Not on viewWeb CommentaryIsabella 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.
BibliographyNotesMir 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)")
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)")
MarksNotesInscribed (lower left): Boris Anisfeld 1910
ProvenanceNotesPurchased by Isabella Stewart Gardner from the traveling Boris Anisfeld exhibition at the Boston Art Club on about 23 December 1918, lot 18.
