Edwin Dikinson
Catalogue entry
Marie's Return
Catalogue no. 75
1916
Provincetown, MA
Oil on composition board
15 3/4 x 15 3/4 in. (40 x 40 cm)
Private collection, Chicago, IL
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Notes
Painted in Provincetown, MA. Identified on reverse as a scene from Dostoevski's "The Idiot."
Marie, a consumptive girl of twenty, is seduced by a stranger with whom she goes away
for a week. He abandons her and she returns to her village sick, dirty and in rags. Her mother
receives her with anger and contempt. Marie lies on the ground at her mother's feet while the
villagers revile and abuse her.
Provenance
Private collection, Chicago, IL
Exhibition History
James Graham & Sons, New York, Edwin Dickinson, Retrospective, February 1–March 11, 1961.
MOMA Lending Service exhibition need data, 19??.
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Citation: Dickinson Baldwin, Helen. "Marie's Return, 1916 (Catalogue no. 75)." In The Edwin Dickinson Catalogue Raisonné. www.edwindickinson.org/catalogue/entry.php?id=75 (accessed on July 28, 2026).