Tasse et mandarine

Details

Édouard Vuillard (1868-1940)
Tasse et mandarine
signed 'E. Vuillard' (upper left)
oil on canvas
7 ½ x 9 7/8 in. (19 x 25.1 cm.)
Painted in 1887-1888

Provenance

Estate of the artist.
Galerie Alfred Daber, Paris (acquired from the above, 1941).
The Lefevre Gallery (Alex. Reid & Lefevre, Ltd.), London.
Acquired from the above by the late owner, 1985.

Literature

C. Roger-Marx, Vuillard et son temps, Paris, 1946, p. 45.
C. Roger-Marx, Vuillard, Interiors, Lausanne, 1968, p. 6.
A. Salomon and G. Cogeval, Vuillard, Le regard innombrable, Catalogue critique des peintures et pastels, Paris, 2003, vol. I, p. 12, no. I-6 (illustrated in color).

Exhibited

Paris, Musée des arts décoratifs, E. Vuillard, May-July 1938, no. 4.
Paris, Galerie Alfred Daber, Oeuvres remarquables de Vuillard, April-May 1947.
Boston, Museum of Fine Arts, 1985 (on loan).
New York, The Katonah Gallery, The Intimate Eye of Edouard Vuillard, May-August 1989, p. 15 (illustrated in color).

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Lot Essay

Tasse et mandarine is the sixth work recorded in the catalogue raisonné of Vuillard's works. Of all the early still-lifes executed between 1887 and 1890, the present work is the only one in which Vuillard paints a curtain that drapes onto the table, introducing sunlight into the composition. With the addition of the curtain, Vuillard creates a more dynamic still-life as compared to his other recorded still-lifes, which display more traditional, static nature morte compositions.

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