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Edouard Vuillard (1868-1940)
Lot 428 PROPERTY FROM AN IMPORTANT PRIVATE COLLECTION

Edouard Vuillard (1868-1940)

Femme assise dans un intérieur clair

Closed14 May 2019

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Edouard Vuillard (1868-1940)
Femme assise dans un intérieur clair
signed 'E Vuillard' (lower right)
oil on board laid down on cradled panel
15 1/8 x 18 ½ in. (38.2 x 47.1 cm.)
Painted circa 1902-1904

Galerie Bernheim-Jeune et Cie., Paris.
Gaston Bernheim de Villers, Paris (circa 1938).
Jos Hessel, Paris.
Justin K. Thannhauser, New York.
Harry M. Goldblatt, New York (by 1964).
Thomas Gibson Fine Art, Ltd., London.
Acquired from the above by the present owner, December 1980.

Specialist note

On the wall of the artist’s home on the rue Truffaut, above the head of the seated figure in the present work, is Felix Vallotton’s portrait of Vuillard. The artist sat for his friend Vallotton in 1902, and kept the portrait in his personal collection for the rest of his life.