Lot 144
  • 144

Edouard Vuillard

Estimate
60,000 - 80,000 GBP
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Description

  • Edouard Vuillard
  • Thérèse Dorny
  • stamped Vuillard (lower right)
  • distemper on paper laid down on canvas
  • 140 by 93cm., 55⅛ by 36⅝in.

Provenance

Galerie Georges Maratier, Paris
Jérôme Ottoz, Paris (acquired in 1959)
Private Collection, France

Exhibited

Edinburgh, Royal Scottish Academy, Pierre Bonnard & Edouard Vuillard, 1948, no. 120
London, Wildenstein, Edouard Vuillard, 1948, no. 62
Paris, Galerie Charpentier, Vuillard, 1948, no. 103
Basel, Kunsthalle, Edouard Vuillard (1868-1940), Charles Hug, 1949, no. 228
Munich, Kunstverein, Bonnard, Roussel, Vuillard, 1959, no. 67

Literature

Claude Roger-Marx, 'Edouard Vuillard 1867-1940' in Gazette des Beaux-Arts 29, no. 952, June 1946, fig. 11, illustrated p. 372
Jean Fayard, 'La Parisienne vue par les peintres, Mimi Pinson ou la duchesse de Guermantes' in Le Jardin des arts, no. 43, May 1958, illustrated p. 431
Antoine Salomon & Guy Cogeval, Vuillard: Catalogue critique des peintures et pastels, Paris, 2003, vol. III, no. XII-108, illustrated p. 1511

Condition

Executed on buff coloured wove paper, mounted on canvas. The edges of the canvas have been taped around the stretcher. The sheet is slightly undulating in a few areas, including the upper left corner, and there area a number of small possible repaired tears visible around the perimeter. There is some very minor cracking in some of the thickest areas of pigment, particularly noticeable on the figures proper left cheek. This excepting, the work is in very good overall condition.
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