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Modern and Contemporary Art

Landscape (Woman with a Jug)

Made in France

c. 1924-1926

Moïse Kisling, French (born Poland), 1891 - 1953

Oil on canvas
31 13/16 x 23 5/8 inches (80.8 x 60 cm)

© Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris

Currently not on view

1945-16-38

Gift of George Biddle, 1945

Label

This painting depicts the verdant green hills and forest glades that surround the picturesque fishing port of Sanary-sur-Mer, near Toulon, where Moïse Kisling lived in a number of rented villas between 1924 and 1932, before constructing his own house, La Baie, in 1938. The area's unspoiled wooded landscape became the subject of a number of the artist's paintings in the mid-1920s, although the presence of this statuesque woman carrying a water jug on her head is unique in his oeuvre. Seen from the back, the anonymous woman transforms the scene into a timeless, arcadian fantasy that references the Mediterranean region's classical past.

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Provenance

George Biddle [1]; gift to PMA, 1945. 1. Presumably the American artist (born Philadelphia 1885, died Croton-on-Hudson, NY, 1973).

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