Edouard Vuillard (1868-1940)
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Edouard Vuillard (1868-1940)

La plage violette

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Edouard Vuillard (1868-1940)
La plage violette
stamped with the signature 'E.Vuillard' (Lugt 2497a; lower left)
oil on board laid down on cradled panel
10 5/8 x 13¾ in. (27 x 35 cm.)
Painted circa 1890
Provenance
The artist's studio.
Hallsborough, London.
Mr & Mrs George T. Bowdoin, New York; her sale, Sotheby's, London, 24 April 1963, lot 71 (illustrated).
The Hon. A.G. Samuel, London, by whom acquired at the above sale, and thence by descent.
Literature
B. Dorival, 'Nabis, fauves, cubistes', in Les Peintres du vingtième siècle, vol. I, Paris, 1957, p. 21.
F. Abbate, 'L'Ottocento in Europa. Le correnti di fine secolo', in Storia universale dell'arte, Milan, 1966 (illustrated fig. 13).
R. Barilli, 'Il Gruppo dei Nabis', in L'Arte moderna, II, no. 13 (illustrated p. 104).
A. Salomon & G. Cogeval, Vuillard, Catalogue critique des peintures et pastels, vol. I, Paris, 2003, no. II-53 (illustrated p. 105).
Exhibited
Paris, Musée National d'Art Moderne, Bonnard, Vuillard et les Nabis (1888-1903), June - October 1955, no. 184.
Milan, Palazzo Reale, Edouard Vuillard, October - November 1959, no. 7 (illustrated; titled 'Il greto').
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