TÊTE D’OLIVIER PAIN
Oil on Canvas
Signed Bottom right: Manet. ( the signature does not seem to be in the hand of Manet)
41 x 33 cm
1881
Sketch for L’Evasion de Rochefort. Sketch for l’Evasion de Nouméa and O. Pain, 1881. Olivier Pain (1845-1885) was a journalist deported for participation in the Commune, who escaped with Rochefort from New Caledonia. After 1879 he collaborated L’intransigeant, Rochefort’s Journal.
Expositions:
Portraits des Ecrivains et Journalistes, Georges Petit, Paris, 1893, n° 700; Portraits d’Hommes, Bernheim Jeune, Paris, 1907-1908; Visages de Manet à Dunoyer de Segonzac, Le Poët-Laval (Drôme), 1969, n° 21.
Literature
Th. Duret, 1902, n° 291; E. Moreau-Nélaton, 1926, cat. ms., n° 315; P. Jamot – G. Wildenstein, n° 457; A. Tabarant, 1947, p. 404, n° 377; D. Rouart – S. Orienti, 1970, n° 346d; Denis Rouart – Daniel Wildenstein, Edouard Manet: Catalogue Raisonné Part 1. 1975, n°367.
Provenance
A. Proust, Paris; baron Vitta, Paris; sale baron Vitta, Charpentier, Paris, 15 March 1935, n° 9; P.A., France.
