Lot 16
  • 16

Édouard Vuillard

Estimate
30,000 - 50,000 USD
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Description

  • Edouard Vuillard
  • Yvonne Printemps dans sa loge
  • Stamped E. Vuillard (lower left) (Lugt 2497b)
  • Distemper on paper laid down on canvas
  • 19 3/4 by 28 1/2 in.
  • 50.2 by 72.4 cm.

Provenance

Sacha Guitry, Paris
André Weil, Paris
Mme Lobel-Riche, Paris
O'Hana Gallery, London (by 1959)
Howard Young Galleries, New York
Byron Foy, New York (and sold: Parke-Bernet, New York, May 19, 1966, lot 26)
Private Collection, New York (acquired at the above sale)
Thence by descent

Exhibited

London, O'Hana Galleries, French Paintings of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, 1959
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma Arts Center, Collector's Gala Number One, 1966, no. 26, illustrated in color in the catalogue

Literature

The Connoisseur 143, no. 577, April 1959, p. 176, illustrated fig. 1
Antoine Salomon and Guy Cogeval, Vuillard: The Inexhaustible Glance, Critical Catalogue of Paintings and Pastels, vol. III, Paris, 2003, no. XI-180, illustrated p. 1391

Condition

Work is in good condition. Painted on buff colored wove paper. Edges are taped. Minor frame abrasion along edges including a small tear at extreme lower left corner. Sheet is buckling slightly at lower left. Under UV light: three vertical lines towards lower left edge fluoresce but no inpainting is apparent.
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