Lot 323
  • 323

Edouard Vuillard

Estimate
10,000 - 15,000 EUR
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Description

  • Edouard Vuillard
  • Effet de soir sur la mer
  • stamped with the artist's initials EV (lower right)
  • pastel on paper
  • 25,2 x 33 cm; 9 7/8 x 13 in.

Provenance

Alfred Ayrton, Monte-Carlo
JPL Fine Arts, London
Galerie Berès, Paris (1987)
Private collection, Switzerland
Mrs. Close Barzin born Eleanor Post Close and her son Mr. Antal Post de Bekessy
Estate of Mrs. Close Barzin born Eleanor Post Close deceased in 2006 and her son Mr. Antal Post de Bekessy deceased in 2015

Literature

Antoine Salomon & Guy Cogeval, Vuillard, Le Regard innombrable, Catalogue critique des peintures et pastels, vol. II, Paris, 2003, no. VIII-357, illustrated p. 989

Condition

Executed on buff fibrous paper, not laid down and attached with tape along all four edges to the overmount. There are pinholes at each corner and to the centre of upper and lower edges. There is a tiny puncture towards the upper left corner. Otherwise this work is in overall very good condition.
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