Bouquet de Tulipes. 1937.
Oil on canvas.
Kisling 56. Signed in lower left. 73 x 54 cm (28.7 x 21.2 in).

• Still lifes by the artist are part of important collections, among them the Center Pompidou and the Musée d'art Moderne in Paris.
• In 1930, a painting by Kisling was shown alongside works by Pierre Bonnard, Georges Braque, Marc Chagall, Robert Delaunay, André Derain, Henri Matisse, Joan Miró, Pablo Picasso and others in the exhibition "Painting in Paris" at the Museum of Modern Art in New York
• A tulip still life is also on the cover of the catalogue raisonné of paintings (Jean Kisling, Turin 1971).

With a certifiate of authenticity, issued by Marc Ottavi, Cabinet Expertise Marc Ottavi, Paris. The work will be included in "Vol. IV and Additions to Vol. I, II and III" of the Catalogue Raisonné of the Work of Moïse Kisling, currently in preparation by Marc Ottavi, Paris.

PROVENANCE: Collection Dr. Hoffman, Paris.
Collection Michel Ibre, Paris (Loudmer, Poulain & Cornette de Saint Cyr, Paris, May 27, 1972).
Private collection (Ader, Paris, November 18, 1989).
Private collection (acquired from the above in 2000, Shinwa Art Auction, Tokyo, June 10, 2000).
Private collection Hesse (acquired from the above in 2007, Sotheby's, London, June 20, 2007).
Ever since family-owned.

EXHIBITION: Presumably Kisling, Galerie Drouant-David, Paris, November 1951 (with fragments of a gallery label on the reverse).

LITERATURE: Loudmer, Poulain & Cornette de Saint Cyr, Palais Galliera, Paris, Importants tableaux modernes, May 27, 1972, lot 62.
Ader, Drouot Montaigne, Paris, Importants tableaux des XIX e et XX e siècles, November 18, 1989, lot 111, p. 168 (with col. illu., p. 169).
Jean Kisling, Kisling 1891-1953, Turin 1971, vol. I, cat. no. 56, p. 230 (with illu.).
Sotheby's, London, Impressionist and Modern Art, June 20, 2007, lot 504 (with illu.).

"Je me souvients des interminables séances durant lesquelles, après avoir acheté des fleurs soigneusement sélectionnées, mon père allait et venait et composait son bouquet. La recherche du vase, de la table et du fond les mieux adaptés, l'arrangement des tiges et des branches une à une, le recul de l'oeil exercé. Lorsque tout était prêt, il se mettait à reproduire le plus fidèlement possible chaque pétale, chaque pistil, un à un. Il refusait d'imaginer. Le moindre bouquet demandait plusieurs jours de travail, et bien souvent les fleurs étaient fanées au moment où l'oeuvre s'achevait."
Jean Kisling, fils de l'artiste, sur les natures mortes florales de son père, cité de : Galerie Daniel Malingue (dir.), Kisling centenaire, Paris 1991, cat. 36

"I remember how my father composed his bouquets of carefully selected flowers in endless sessions. His trained eye looking for the most suitable vase, table and background, the right arrangement of every single blossom and stem. Once everything had been set up, he began to meticulously reproduce each petal, each pistil, one by one. He refused to add imagination. Even the smallest bouquet required several days of work, and very often the flowers had withered by the time the work was finished."
Jean Kisling, the artist's son, about his father's still lifes, quoted from: Galerie Daniel Malingue (ed.), Kisling centenaire, Paris 1991, cat. no. 36.

Called up: June 10, 2023 - ca. 15.23 h +/- 20 min.