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Édouard Vuillard
Estimate
60,000 - 80,000 USD
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Description
- Edouard Vuillard
- Portrait d'une femme de profil
- Signed with the initials E.V. (lower right)
- Oil on board
- 18 1/2 by 12 3/8 in.
- 47 by 31.5 cm
Provenance
Jos Hessel, Paris
Bernheim-Jeune, Paris (purchased on October 11, 1919)
R. Keller, Paris (acquired from the above on October 23, 1922)
Marcel Norero, Paris (sold: Hôtel Drouot, Paris, Vente Norero, February 14, 1927, lot 113)
Gérard Frères, Paris (purchased at the above sale)
Ernest Brown & Phillips, London in partnership with the Leicester Galleries, London
Chester H. Johnson (sold: Anderson Galleries, New York, November 14, 1934, lot 16)
Katz Collection (sold: Anderson Galleries, New York, October 21, 1937, lot 9)
Gaston de Havenon, New York (circa 1954)
By descent to the present owner
Bernheim-Jeune, Paris (purchased on October 11, 1919)
R. Keller, Paris (acquired from the above on October 23, 1922)
Marcel Norero, Paris (sold: Hôtel Drouot, Paris, Vente Norero, February 14, 1927, lot 113)
Gérard Frères, Paris (purchased at the above sale)
Ernest Brown & Phillips, London in partnership with the Leicester Galleries, London
Chester H. Johnson (sold: Anderson Galleries, New York, November 14, 1934, lot 16)
Katz Collection (sold: Anderson Galleries, New York, October 21, 1937, lot 9)
Gaston de Havenon, New York (circa 1954)
By descent to the present owner
Exhibited
Cleveland Museum of Art and New York, Museum of Modern Art, Édouard Vuillard, 1954, p. 101
Literature
Antoine Salomon and Guy Cogeval, Vuillard, The Inexhaustible Glance, Critical Catalogue of Paintings and Pastels, vol. 2, Paris, 2003, no. VII-430, illustrated p. 756
Catalogue Note
The subject of the present work, although very similar in appearance to Lucy Hessel, is most likely a professional model as she appears in a number of Vuillard's works.