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

Les messieurs en noir

Auction Closed

December 7, 05:45 PM GMT

Estimate

1,500,000 - 2,000,000 GBP

Lot Details

Description

Édouard Vuillard

1868 - 1940

Les messieurs en noir


stamped E. Vuillard and indistinctly numbered (lower right)

oil on board laid down on panel

57.8 by 34.7cm., 22¾ by 13⅝in.

Painted circa 1895-99.

Estate of the artist

Jacques Salomon, Paris (by descent from the above) 

Wildenstein & Co., New York (acquired from the above in 1971)

Dr Joseph Goldyne, San Francisco (acquired from the above in October 1972)

Thomas Gibson Fine Art, London (acquired from the above in November 1992)

Acquired from the above in 1993

Antoine Salomon & Guy Cogeval, Vuillard: The Inexhaustible Glance, Critical Catalogue of Paintings and Pastels, Milan, 2003, vol. I, no. V-92, illustrated in colour p. 426