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Lot 333 Property from the Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Fred Schoneman

Edouard Vuillard (1868-1940)

Les premiers fruits

Closed5 May 2010

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Edouard Vuillard (1868-1940)
Les premiers fruits
stamped with signature 'E Vuillard' (Lugt 2497a; lower right)
oil on paper laid down on canvas
8 x 13¾ in. (20.3 x 35 cm.)
Painted in 1899

Estate of the artist.
M. Arnoé, Paris (1967).
Alphonse Stein, Paris (circa 1970).
Acquired by the present owner, by 1989.

Specialist note

This work is one of a series of studies for the final version of Les premiers fruits (Salomon and Cogeval, vol. II, no. VII-63), part of a decorative cycle commissioned for the dining room of Adam Natanson, whose family founded the avant-garde journal La revue blanche. The finished decorative panel is currently in the collection of the Norton Simon Museum in Pasadena, California.