Impressionist & Modern Art Evening Sale

Impressionist & Modern Art Evening Sale

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Property from the Collection of Ambassador and Mrs. Felix Rohatyn

ÉDOUARD VUILLARD | MADAME VUILLARD LISANT LE JOURNAL

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