Impressionist & Modern Art Evening Sale
Impressionist & Modern Art Evening Sale
Property from the Collection of Ambassador and Mrs. Felix Rohatyn
Auction Closed
October 29, 01:50 AM GMT
Estimate
600,000 - 800,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Property from the Collection of Ambassador and Mrs. Felix Rohatyn
ÉDOUARD VUILLARD
1868 - 1940
MADAME VUILLARD LISANT LE JOURNAL
Signed E Vuillard and dated 17 (lower right)
Distemper on paper mounted on cradled panel
34 by 28 in.
86.3 by 71.1 cm
Painted in 1912 and reworked in 1917.
Bernheim Jeune, Paris (acquired from the artist on April 12, 1912)
Alphonse Kahn, Germaine-en-Laye (acquired from the above by exchange on April 13, 1912)
Jos Hessel, Paris (acquired from the above in 1917)
Mr. & Mrs. Charles W. Engelhard, Far Hills, New Jersey (acquired by 1964)
A wedding gift from the above in 1978
Antoine Salomon & Guy Cogeval, Vuillard: The Inexhaustible Glance, Critical Catalogue of Paintings and Pastels, vol. II, Milan, 2003, no. IX-33, illustrated p. 1047
Paris, Bernheim-Jeune, Edouard Vuillard, 1912, no. 35
New York, Wildenstein & Co., Vuillard, 1964, no. 52, illustrated in the catalogue (dated 1917)
New York, Wildenstein & Co., Faces from the World of Impressionism and Post-Impressionism, 1972, no. 71, illustrated in the catalogue