EDOUARD VUILLARD | Roses sur une cheminée

French Art Gallery, New York
Georges Bigar, New York & Lausanne (acquired from the above)
By descent from the above to the present owners in 1986

Antoine Salomon & Guy Cogeval, Vuillard, The Inexhaustible Glance. Critical Catalogue of Paintings and Pastels, Paris, 2003, vol. II, no. VII-496, illustrated in colour p. 786

Oil on board laid down on cradled panel. There is a milky varnish preventing the UV light from fully penetrating, however UV examination reveals some areas of retouching towards the upper centre of the composition, the largest of which is approx. 5cm in length. There are some flecks of pigment loss in places, primarily to the deep blue pigment to the left part of the bouquet, and there is a small loss to the surface of the board towards the right edge of the upper left quadrant and some further very minor scratches to the card surface in places. This work is in overall good condition.
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‘We perceive of nature only through our senses, which gives us images of forms and colours, sound [...] a form, a colour exists only in relation to another’  Édouard Vuillard
(quoted in Belinda Thompson, Vuillard, Oxford, 1988, p. 12)