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Édouard Vuillard
Les messieurs en noir
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Édouard Vuillard
1868 - 1940
Les messieurs en noir
stamped E. Vuillard and indistinctly numbered (lower right)
oil on board laid down on panel
57.8 by 34.7cm., 22¾ by 13⅝in.
Painted circa 1895-99.
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Estate of the artist
Jacques Salomon, Paris (by descent from the above)
Wildenstein & Co., New York (acquired from the above in 1971)
Dr Joseph Goldyne, San Francisco (acquired from the above in October 1972)
Thomas Gibson Fine Art, London (acquired from the above in November 1992)
Acquired from the above in 1993
Antoine Salomon & Guy Cogeval, Vuillard: The Inexhaustible Glance, Critical Catalogue of Paintings and Pastels, Milan, 2003, vol. I, no. V-92, illustrated in colour p. 426
New York, Wildenstein & Co., La revue blanche: Paris in the Days of Post-Impressionism and Symbolism, 1983, illustrated in the catalogue (titled The Physician's Visit and as dating from circa 1900)