Édouard Vuillard

Estimate

200,000 - 300,000 USD

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Description

Edouard Vuillard
Jardin à Cannes
Signed E. Vuillard (lower left)
Oil on paper mounted on canvas
29 3/4 by 41 1/4 in.
75.5 by 104.7 cm

Provenance

Thadée Natanson, Paris (sold: Hôtel Drouot, Paris, Vente Natanson, June 13, 1908, lot 56)
Félix Fénéon, Paris (sold: Hôtel Drouot, Paris, Vente Fénéon, December 4, 1941, lot 87)
Renou et Colle, Paris
Jacques Roussel, Paris
Sam Salz, New York
Mr. and Mrs. Nathan L. Halpern, New York
Gift of the above in 1965

Exhibited

Paris, Bernheim-Jeune, Le paysage du Midi, 1914, no. 58
Lyons, Ve Salon du Sud-Est, 1929, no. 104a
Paris, Bernheim-Jeune, Oeuvres de Vuillard de 1890 à 1910, 1938
Paris, Galerie Charpentier, Paysages du Midi, 1947-48, no. 166
Stockholm, Galerie d'Art Latin, Vuillard, 1948, no. 14 (titled Le Palmier, 1925)
Basel, Kunsthalle, Édouard Vuillard (1868-1940), 1949, no. 231
Munich, Kunstverein, Bonnard, Roussel, Vuillard, 1959, no. 46
Phoenix Art Museum, The River and the Sea, 1967-68, no. 21, illustrated

Literature

Beaux-Arts, no. 45, November 21, 1941, illustrated p. 15
Georges Wildenstein, Gauguin, vol. 1, Paris, 1964, no. 233, illustrated p. 86 (incorrectly attributed to Paul Gauguin)
Stuart Preston, Édouard Vuillard, New York, 1971, p. 17, fig. 11
Antoine Salomon and Guy Cogeval, Vuillard, The Inexhaustible Glance, Critical Catalogue of Paintings and Pastels, vol. 2, Paris, 2003, no. VIII-16, p. 837

Catalogue Note

Following the first exhibition of the Nabis group in 1900 at Bernheim-Jeune, Vuillard began a year of travels which took him to diverse landscapes including Switzerland, Italy and Spain. Often in the company of Nabis artists such as Ker-Xavier Roussel and Pierre Bonnard, these travels had resounding influence on Vuillard, not the least of which was the extraordinary light and rich color he encountered in southern France, which had mesmerized painters such as Renoir and Signac before him.

In early 1901, Vuillard traveled to Cannes and enjoyed the hospitality of Misia and Thadée Natanson at the villa Croix des Gardes, the location of the present work. According to Antoine Salomon and Guy Cogeval, “From this holiday he brought back the first paintings in which the blue of the Mediterranean and the brilliant light of the south of France flood the pictorial surface. Looking at Garden in Cannes (the present work) we think of Bonnard, but the latter was not to discover the Côte d’Azur until some ten years later” (Antoine Salomon and Guy Cogeval, Vuillard, The Inexhaustible Glance, Critical Catalogue of Paintings and Pastels, vol. 2, Paris, 2003, p. 821-822).

Fig. 1 Paul Ranson, Félix Vallotton, Pierre Bonnard, Maximiliem Luce, Paul Sérusier, and Édouard Vuillard, 1901, original silver gelatin print, Private Collection