Edouard Vuillard

La Porte du jardin

Auction Closed

May 17, 10:38 PM GMT

Estimate

400,000 - 600,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Property from a Private Collection, Canada

Edouard Vuillard

1868 - 1940

La Porte du jardin

signed E. Vuillard and dated 1910 (lower left)

distemper on paper mounted on canvas

54¾ by 73¼ in.

139 by 186 cm.

Executed in 1910 and reworked in 1916.

Please note, the updated medium for the lot is distemper on paper mounted on canvas.

Bernheim-Jeune, Paris (acquired from the artist on 9 November 1910)

Georges Bernheim, Paris (acquired from the above on 11 January 1917 )

Galerie Mouradian-Vallotton, Paris (acquired in 1939)

Katia Granoff (until 1956)

Galerie Beyeler, Basel (acquired in 1956)

Wildenstein & Co., New York (acquired in 1960)

Maxwell Cummings, Montreal (acquired in June 1969)

Thence by descent from the above to the present owner

Charles Morice, "Salon d’automne," Mercure de France, vol. 88, November 1910, no. 321, p. 158

Achille Segard, Peintres d’aujourd’hui. Les décorateurs, vol. II, Paris 1914, p. 322

Claude Terrasse, La Peinture française au vingtième siècle, Paris 1939, pl. 13, illustrated

Claude Roger-Marx, “Vuillard. Intérieurs,” Rythmes et couleurs, vol. II, no. 3, Paris and Lausanne 1968, pl. 16, illustrated (titled Marthe Mellot)

Robert Hughes, "Art. The Insider," Time, November 1971, illustrated

Patricia Ciaffa, The Portraits of Édouard Vuillard, Ph.D. dissertation, Columbia University, Ann Arbor, 1985, p. 306, fig. 167, illustrated

Antoine Salomon and Guy Cogeval, Vuillard, The Inexhaustible Glance, Critical Catalogue of Paintings and Pastels, vol. II, Paris 2003, no. VIII-365, pp. 992-93, illustrated in color (with incorrect medium)

Paris, Grand Palais, Salon d’automne, 8ème exposition, 1910, no. 1203
Paris, Bernheim-Jeune, Exposition Vuillard, 1911, no. 12
Prague, Obecuí dum [Hôtel de Ville], LXVI Vystava Spolku vytvarnych umeleu Mánes. Vystava francouzského uměni XIX. A XX. Století [Exposition de l’association Mánes, XIXe et XXe siècles d’art français], 1923, no. 175
Paris, Petit Palais, Les Maîtres de l’art indépendant, 1895–1937, 1937, no. 14
Basel, Galerie Beyeler, Maîtres de l’art moderne, 1956, no. 15, illustrated
London, Wildenstein, Paintings and Drawings by Continental Masters XVIth-XXth Centuries, 1960, no. 51
New York, Wildenstein, Vuillard, 1964, no. 50, illustrated
Toronto, Art Gallery of Ontario; San Francisco, California Palace of the Legion of Honor and Art Institute of Chicago, Édouard Vuillard, 1868-1940, 1971-1972, no. XIII, illustrated