Property from the Estate of William J. Levy, Sold to Benefit the Endowed Scholarship at the University of Pennsylvania
Edouard Vuillard
Arthur Fontaine lisant — I
Auction Closed
November 14, 11:00 PM GMT
Estimate
200,000 - 300,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Property from the Estate of William J. Levy, Sold to Benefit the Endowed Scholarship at the University of Pennsylvania
Edouard Vuillard
1868 - 1940
Arthur Fontaine lisant — I
stamped E Vuillard (lower right)
oil on board mounted on canvas
24½ by 24¼ in.
62.2 by 61.6 cm.
Executed in 1904.
Estate of the artist
Galerie René Drouin, Paris (acquired by 1943)
Galerie Georges Moos, Geneva (acquired by 1948)
Silvan Rocher, Solothurn, Switzerland (acquired circa 1949)
Galerie Beyeler, Basel (acquired by 1986)
Paul Josefowitz, London
Sotheby's, New York, 11 November 1987, lot 59 (consigned by the above)
Janice Levin, New York (acquired from the above)
Philip and Janice Levin Foundation (acquired as a gift from the above in 2001)
Christie's, New York, 7 May 2008, lot 343 (consigned by the above)
Acquired from the above by the present owner
Paris, Galerie René Drouin, Le Portrait français, 1943, no. 94 (titled Portrait de M. Fontaine)
Stockholm, Galerie d'Art Latin, Vuillard, 1948, no. 8 (titled Intérieur portrait d'homme)
Basel, Kunsthalle, Edouard Vuillard, 1949, no. 203 (titled Der Grüne Salon)
New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, A Very Private Collection: Janice H. Levin's Impressionist Pictures, 2002-2003, no. 26, pp. 98-101, illustrated in color
The Birmingham Museum of Art; Grand Rapids Art Museum; Spokane, Northwest Museum of Arts & Culture; Cincinnati, Taft Museum of Art; Faulconer Gallery, Grinnell College and Vero Beach Museum of Art, An Impressionist Eye: Painting and Sculpture from the Philip and Janice Levin Foundation, 2004-2005, no. 28
Antoine Salomon and Guy Cogeval, Vuillard: The Inexhaustible Glance, Critical Catalogue of Paintings and Pastels, vol. II, Paris 2003, no. VII-311, p. 693, illustrated in color
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