Monticelli worked primarily in his native Marseille, painting romantic fantasies, landscapes, still lifes, and portraits. The texture of his painted surfaces, with their thick impasto, his rich coloring, and the heavy dabs of white that defined his stylistic technique paved the way for later artists such as van Gogh and Soutine.
Details
- Artist Name: Adolphe-Joseph-Thomas Monticelli (French, 1824-1886)
- Title: The Olive Oil Seller
- Date: c. 1880
- Medium: Oil on panel
- Dimensions: 20 x 15-3/4 in. (50.8 x 40 cm)
- Credit Line: Norton Simon Art Foundation
- Accession Number: M.1980.09.P
- Copyright: © Norton Simon Art Foundation
Object Information
Claude Roger-Marx (sale, Paris, Galerie Manzi Joyant, 11-12 May 1914, lot 63, as La Marchande d’huile, to);
[Galerie Druet, Paris].
François Honnorat (1853-1921), by descent to;
Heirs of F. Honnorat (sale, Marseille, Hôtel des Ventes, 28-29 December 1928, lot 15, ill., passed; sale, Marseille, Hôtel des Ventes, 29 December 1936, lot 15, ill., as L’Italienne ou la Marchande d’olives).
(sale, Nice, Galerie Robiony, 9 June 1965, lot 107, ill., as L’Italianne ou La marchande d’olives).
(sale, London, Christie’s, 12 December 1969, lot 17, ill., sold 2,800 gns. to);
Williams.
[E. V. Thaw & Co., Inc., New York; by 1978, sold, as La Marchande d’huile, 2 July 1980 to];
Norton Simon Art Foundation.
Monticelli: His Contemporaries, His Influence
- Pittsburgh, Carnegie Institute, 1978-10-27 to 1979-01-07
- Toronto, Art Gallery of Ontario, 1979-01-27 to 1979-03-11
- Corcoran Gallery of Art, 1979-04-21 to 1979-05-27
- Rijksmuseum, 1979-06-28 to 1979-09-02
- Marseille, 1936, no. 49, ?no. 105 p. 29, 30
- Alauzen, André M. amd Pierre Ripert, Monticelli, sa vie et son oeuvre, 1969, fig. 464 p. 360
- Carnegie Institute, Museum of Art, Monticelli: His Contemporaries, His Influence, 1978, no. 72, pl. 30
- Brettell, Richard R. and Stephen F. Eisenman, Nineteenth-Century Art in the Norton Simon Museum, volume 1, 2006,
- Campbell, Sara, Collector Without Walls: Norton Simon and His Hunt for the Best, 2010, cat. 1653 p. 431
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