Inscription: Signed (lower left, in black ink): A. Dunoyer de Segonzac; inscribed (verso, upper right, in graphite): The Morin in Spring; inscribed (upper left, in blue pencil, on verso): S
[Léon Marseille, Paris, 1923; sold on July 9, 1923, for Fr. 700, to Thayer]; Scofield Thayer, Vienna and New York (1923–d. 1982; on extended loan to the Worcester Art Museum, Worcester, Mass., as part of the Dial Collection, 1934–82; his bequest to MMA)
New York. Montross Gallery. "Original Paintings, Drawings, and Engravings Being Exhibited with the Dial Folio 'Living Art'," January 26–February 14, 1924, no catalogue (typed checklist no. 40; as "The Morin in Spring").
Rochester, N. Y. Memorial Art Gallery. "The Dial Portfolio of "Living Art"," February–March 1924, no. 73 (as "The Morin in Spring").
Worcester Art Museum. "Exhibition of the Dial Collection of Paintings, Engravings, and Drawings by Contemporary Artists," March 5–30, 1924, no. 33 (as "The Morin in Spring").
Northampton, Mass. Hillyer Art Gallery, Smith College. "The Dial Collection," May 1924, no catalogue.
Worcester Art Museum. "The Dial and the Dial Collection," April 30–September 8, 1959, no. 216 (as "The Morin in Spring").
Worcester Art Museum. "Selections from the Dial Collection," November 13–30, 1965, no catalogue.
Scofield Thayer. Living Art: Twenty Facsimile Reproductions after Paintings, Drawings and Engravings and Ten Photographs after Sculpture by Contemporary Artists. New York, 1923, drawings and engravings section, pl. 1, calls it "The Morin in Spring".
Henry McBride. "Modern Art." Dial 76 (February 1924), p. 208.
"'Living Art' Folio and Originals Seen." Art News 22 (February 2, 1924), p. 5.
[Elisabeth Luther Cary]. "The World of Art: Modern Art of One Kind and Another." New York Times (January 27, 1924), p. SM10.
Dial 76 (February 1924), ill. following p. 132, calls it "The Morin in Spring".
Margaret Breuning. "New York Art Galleries Crowded with Many Shows. Living Art." New York Evening Post (February 2, 1924), p. [14].
"Reproductions and Originals: Dial Folio of Living Art Supplemented by Other Works." World (February 3, 1924).
Wyndham Lewis. "Art Chronicle." Criterion 3 (October 1924), p. 109.
Arthur Millier. "Many Paintings, a Few Facsimiles." Los Angeles Sunday Times (June 15, 1924), p. 28.
[Scofield Thayer]. "Comment." Dial 76 (March 1924), p. 292.
Herbert J. Seligmann. "Living Art for Americans." Nation 118 (April 9, 1924), p. 403.
Elie Faure. "Living Art." Dial 77 (October 1924), p. 336.
R[obert]. R[attray]. T[atlock]. "Review: Living Art." Burlington Magazine 44 (March 1924), p. 153.
Ralph Flint. "More Modernism in New York." Christian Science Monitor 16, no. 57 (February 2, 1924), p. 11.
Worcester Art Museum News Bulletin and Calendar 27 (March 1962), p. 4, ill., calls it "The Morin in Spring".
Nicholas Joost. Scofield Thayer and The Dial: An Illustrated History. Carbondale, Ill., 1964, pp. 229, 236, 238–39, ill. between pp. 268 and 269, calls it "The Morin in Spring".
Nicholas Joost. "The Dial Collection: Tastes and Trends of the 'Twenties." Apollo 94 (December 1971), p. 494, calls it "The Morin in Spring".
André-Dunoyer de Segonzac (French, Boussy-Saint-Antoine 1884–1974 Paris)
1913
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