Lot 57
  • 57

Edouard Vuillard

Estimate
120,000 - 180,000 EUR
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Description

  • Edouard Vuillard
  • Madame Hessel au coin du feu dit Devant la cheminĂ©e
  • signed E. Vuillard (lower left)
  • oil on cardboard
  • 54.4 x 47.3 cm ; 21 3/8 x 18 5/8 in.

Provenance

Jos Hessel & Galerie Bernheim-Jeune, Paris (acquired from the artist on 21st January 1918)
Galerie Bernheim-Jeune, Paris (bought in entirety from Jos Hessel on 19 December 1932)
Fernand Javal, Paris (acquired from the above on 27 October 1934)
Thence by descent

Exhibited

Pittsburgh, Carnegie Institute, Ninth Annual Exhibition, 1920, no. 373
Paris, Paul Rosenberg, Exposition d'œuvres de Bonnard et Vuillard provenant de collections particulières, 1936, no. 23
Paris, Petit Palais, Les maîtres de l'art indépendant, 1937, no. 6
Paris, Galerie Bernheim-Jeune, Edouard Vuillard, exposition au profit de l'Orphelinat des Arts, 1953, no. 9 (titled Femme à la cheminée)
Albi, Musée Toulouse Lautrec, Edouard Vuillard, 1960, no. 80

Literature

Tristan Leclère, 'Edouard Vuillard', Art et décoration, October 1920, illustrated p. 105
Antoine Salomon & Guy Cogeval, Vuillard : Le Regard innombrable. Catalogue critique des peintures et pastels, Paris, 2003, vol. III, no. X-204, illustrated p. 1271

Condition

The board is sound. There is some very minor abrasion to the edges but no evidence of retouching under UV light. This work is in very good original condition.
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