HOTUNG | 何東 The Personal Collection of the late Sir Joseph Hotung | Part II: Evening

HOTUNG | 何東 The Personal Collection of the late Sir Joseph Hotung | Part II: Evening

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Édouard Vuillard

Au 'Divan Japonais'

Auction Closed

December 7, 05:45 PM GMT

Estimate

1,200,000 - 1,800,000 GBP

Lot Details

Description

Édouard Vuillard

1868 - 1940

Au 'Divan Japonais'


stamped E. Vuillard and numbered 190 (lower right) 

oil on board

21 by 21.2cm., 8¼ by 8⅜in.

Painted circa 1890-91.

Estate of the Artist
Jacques Salomon, Paris (by descent from the above and until 1950)
Charles-Auguste Girard, Paris (acquired in 1950)
Georges Wildenstein, New York
Carroll Carstairs Gallery, New York
Diane Esmond Wallis, New York (acquired by 1954)
Sale: Christie's, London, 30th November 1981, lot 18
Thomas Gibson Fine Art, London (purchased at the above sale)
Private Collection, Switzerland (acquired by 1990 and until 2003)
Thomas Gibson Fine Art, London
Acquired from the above in 2003
André Chastel, Vuillard. 1868-1940, Paris, 1946, illustrated p. 12 (titled La chanteuse)
The Museum of Modern Art Bulletin, New York, Summer 1955, no. 154, illustrated in a photograph p. 16 (titled "Au Divan Japonais" (Profile of Yvette Guilbert))
Belinda Thomson, Vuillard, Oxford, 1988, no. 16, illustrated in colour p. 28 (titled Café-Concert Singer or 'At The Divan Japonais' and with incorrect dimensions)
Guy Cogeval, Vuillard, le temps détourné, Paris, 1993, illustrated in colour on the title page (with incorrect dimensions)
Antoine Salomon & Guy Cogeval, Vuillard: The Inexhaustible Glance, Critical Catalogue of Paintings and Pastels, Milan, 2003, vol. I, no. III-5, illustrated in colour p. 168 (with incorrect dimensions)