Lot 387
  • 387

Édouard Vuillard

Estimate
30,000 - 40,000 USD
bidding is closed

Description

  • Edouard Vuillard
  • Portrait de Gabrielle Jonas
  • Signed E Vuillard (lower right)
  • Pastel on paper
  • 19 3/4 by 25 1/2 in.
  • 50.1 by 64.7 cm

Provenance

Gabrielle Jonas, Paris (acquired directly from the artist)
Sale: Hôtel Drouot, Paris, March 19, 1942, lot 38
Mouradian et Vallotton, Paris
Private Collection, Paris
Emile Wolf, New York (acquired circa 1962)
Thence by descent

Literature

Antoine Salomon & Guy Cogeval, Vuillard, The Inexhaustible Glance, Critical Catalogue of Paintings and Pastels, vol. III, Milan, 2003, no. XI-240, illustrated p. 1429

Condition

Executed on medium brown paper which has been attached to a board along the reverse of the periphery of the sheet. Judging from the movement of the paper, the sheet does not appear to have been laid down. There are pin holes to the periphery of the sheet. The pigments are extremely fresh and strong and there is minimal time fading to the sheet itself. There is a minor surface indentation which does not detract from the overall look at the center of the upper edge, approximately 2 in below the edge. There is minor creasing to the paper at the lower left edge. The work is in overall very good condition.
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