Femme assise dans un intérieur clair

Details

Edouard Vuillard (1868-1940)
Femme assise dans un intérieur clair
signed 'E Vuillard' (lower right)
oil on board laid down on cradled panel
15 1/8 x 18 ½ in. (38.2 x 47.1 cm.)
Painted circa 1902-1904

Provenance

Galerie Bernheim-Jeune et Cie., Paris.
Gaston Bernheim de Villers, Paris (circa 1938).
Jos Hessel, Paris.
Justin K. Thannhauser, New York.
Harry M. Goldblatt, New York (by 1964).
Thomas Gibson Fine Art, Ltd., London.
Acquired from the above by the present owner, December 1980.

Literature

A. Salomon and G. Cogeval, Vuillard: Le regard innombrable, Catalogue critique des peintures et pastels, Paris, 2003, vol. II, p. 629, no. VII-168 (illustrated in color; with incorrect medium and support).

Exhibited

Paris, Galerie Bernheim-Jeune et Cie., Oeuvres de Vuillard de 1890 à 1910, January-February 1938, no. 23.
New York, Wildenstein & Co. Inc., Vuillard, October-November 1964, no. 38 (dated circa 1905 and titled Interior; with incorrect support).
Toronto, Art Gallery of Ontario; San Francisco, California Palace of the Legion of Honor and Art Institute of Chicago, Edouard Vuillard, September 1971-March 1972, p. 231, no. 58 (illustrated; dated circa 1904 and titled Interior).

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Lot Essay

On the wall of the artist’s home on the rue Truffaut, above the head of the seated figure in the present work, is Felix Vallotton’s portrait of Vuillard. The artist sat for his friend Vallotton in 1902, and kept the portrait in his personal collection for the rest of his life.

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