Lot 402
  • 402

Édouard Vuillard

Estimate
50,000 - 70,000 USD
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Description

  • Edouard Vuillard
  • Marie en caraco à sa toilette
  • Stamped with the initials E.V. (lower left)
  • Pastel on paper
  • 13 3/4 by 9 1/2 in.
  • 34.8 by 24 cm

Provenance

Estate of the artist
Kunsthandel Sabine Helms, Munich
Private Collection, Germany
Sale: Christie's, London, November 28, 1989, lot 117
Galerie Robert Schmit, Paris
Acquired from the above in 1992

Exhibited

Bremen, Kunsthandel Wolfgang Werner, Impressionismusm Pont-Aven, Nabis, Fauves, Skizzen und Bilder à l'hommage de A. W. Heymel, 1977, no. 92, illustrated in color the catalogue
Bremen, Kunsthandel Sabine Helms—Graphisches Kabinett & Kunsthandel Wolfgang Werner, Édouard Vuillard und die Nabis, 1983, no. 9, illustrated in the catalogue
Paris, Galerie Schmit, 25 ans d'expositions maîtres français XiXe-XXe siècles, 1990, no. 73, illustrated in color in the catalogue
Paris, Galerie Schmit, Maîtres français XiXe-XXe siècles, n.n.

Literature

Claire Frèches-Thory & Ursula Peruchhi-Petri, Die Nabis, Propheten der Moderne (exhibition catalogue), Kunsthaus, Zurich & Grand Palais & Musée d'Orsay, Paris, 1993-94, illustrated pp. 324-25
Antoine Salomon & Guy Cogeval, Vuillard: The Inexhaustible Glance, Critical Catalogue of Paintings and Pastels, vol. I, Paris, 2003, no. IV-43, illustrated in color p. 252

Condition

The work is in very good condition. Executed on beige wove paper. Work is fixed to a paper window mount with adhesive around the perimeter of its verso. The edges have been cut. There are pinholes visible at upper right, upper left, bottom right, and in several places along bottom left. The colors are extremely vivid and fresh. There are some very minor scratches to medium visible in woman's white chemise.
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