Edwin Dikinson
Catalogue entry
Chateau d'Ollioules
Catalogue no. 299
1938
Ollioules, France
Oil on canvas
28 x 36 in. (71.1 x 91.4 cm)
Signed, inscribed on left: "E W Dickinson / Ollioules"
Dated lower right: "1938"
Dated lower right: "1938"
Private Collection
Notes
Painted in Ollioules, France, north of Sanary, May 18 (journal) of Chateau de Madelon de Vintimille. ED made his first trip to Ollioules January 7, "I to Ollioules & 5 mile walk up gorges. Ruined chateau [sic]. Marvelous!" (journal). Walked there and took family pictures, May 17 & 18 (journal).
Provenance
Mr. & Mrs. Ansley W. Sawyer
Esther Hill Sawyer Ewing
Private Collection
Exhibition History
Art Museum of Wellesley College, Wellesley, Massachusetts, Exhibition of Paintings by Edwin W. Dickinson, October 15–November 5, 1940.
Museum of Modern Art, New York, 15 Americans, April 8–June 22, 1952.
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, Edwin Dickinson. Major retrospective, October 20–November 28, 1965.
Smithsonian Institution, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C., Edwin Dickinson, Selected Landscapes, September 18, 1980–December 14, 1981, as "Château of Madelon de Ventemille, at Ollioules.
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Citation: Dickinson Baldwin, Helen. "Chateau d'Ollioules, 1938 (Catalogue no. 299)." In The Edwin Dickinson Catalogue Raisonné. www.edwindickinson.org/catalogue/entry.php?id=299 (accessed on July 23, 2026).