Permanent Art Collection, Wisconsin Art Collection, Vogel Collection
Acquisition
Accession
1972.1
Source or Donor
Mr. and Mrs. William D. (Virginia B.) Vogel
Acquisition Method
Gift
Made/Created
Artist
Gerrit V Sinclair
Date made
1930
Notes
Small pencil sketch on back with color spots drawn possibly by artist next to sketch (not visible when framed).
Inscription/Signature/Marks
Type
Signature and Date
Transcription
“G.V. Sinclair Paris 30”
Dimensions
Dimension Description
Framed Size
Height
24 in
Width
31 in
Exhibitions
Notes
Exhibited at Golda Meir Library, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Milwaukee, WI, for exhibit marking 100th anniversary of birth of James Joyce and Virginia Woolf, March 1982.
Interpretative Labels
Label
Le Dôme Café in Paris was a famed hub for the literary avant-garde of the 1920s and 30s, frequented by James Joyce, Pablo Picasso, Ezra Pound, Wassily Kandinsky, and many others. Joyce would be the bearded, bespectacled man just left of center. Do you recognize other famous figures in this painting?
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Research Notes
Notes
The 1/20/1974 MJ references another Paris/James Joyce painting by Gerrit Sinclair, a "fine 1928 oil portrait of James Joyce and his wife, standing beside the Seine," on exhibit at the Charles Allis in 1974.
