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Property from the Estate of William J. Levy, Sold to Benefit the Endowed Scholarship at the University of Pennsylvania

Edouard Vuillard

Le Déjeuner

Auction Closed

November 14, 11:00 PM GMT

Estimate

300,000 - 500,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Property from the Estate of William J. Levy, Sold to Benefit the Endowed Scholarship at the University of Pennsylvania

Edouard Vuillard

1868 - 1940


Le Déjeuner

stamped E Vuillard (lower right)

oil on canvas

12¾ by 15¾ in.

32.4 by 40 cm.

Executed circa 1895.

Estate of the artist

Sam Salz, Inc., New York (acquired circa January 1965)

Mr. and Mrs. Philip Levin, New York (acquired from the above by 1971)

Philip and Janice Levin Foundation (acquired as a gift from the above in 2001)

Christie's, New York, 7 May 2008, lot 306 (consigned by the above)

Acquired from the above by the present owner

Elizabeth Wynne Easton, Edouard Vuillard: Interiors of the 1890s, Doctoral dissertation, Yale University, 1989, p. 91

Antoine Salomon and Guy Cogeval, Vuillard: The Inexhaustible Glance, Critical Catalogue of Paintings and Pastels, vol. I, Paris 2003, no. IV-189, p. 330, illustrated

Albi, Musée Toulouse-Lautrec, Hommage à E. Vuillard 1868-1940, 1960, no. 31

Irvine, University of California, The University Art Gallery; San Francisco Museum of Art and Cleveland Museum of Art, Years of Ferment, 1965, no. 25, illustrated

New York, Christie's, Van Gogh, Gauguin, and Their Circle, 1968, no. 36 (titled The Breakfast)

Houston, Museum of Fine Arts; Washington D.C., The Phillips Collection and Brooklyn Museum, The Intimate Interiors of Edouard Vuillard, 1989-1990, no. 49, fig. 68, pp. 91-93, illustrated in color

New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, A Very Private Collection: Janice H. Levin's Impressionist Pictures, 2002-2003, no. 25, p. 95, illustrated in color (titled Madame Vuillard Setting the Table)

Birmingham Museum of Art; Grand Rapids Art Museum; Spokane, Northwest Museum of Arts & Culture; Cincinnati, Taft Museum of Art; Faulconer Gallery, Grinnell College and Vero Beach Museum of Art, An Impressionist Eye: Painting and Sculpture from the Philip and Janice Levin Foundation, 2004-2005, no. 26