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Property from the Estate of William J. Levy, Sold to Benefit the Endowed Scholarship at the University of Pennsylvania

Edouard Vuillard

La Ravaudeuse

Auction Closed

November 14, 11:00 PM GMT

Estimate

120,000 - 180,000 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


La Ravaudeuse

signed with the initals ev (upper left)

oil on board

11¼ by 9¼ in.

28.6 by 23.5 cm.

Executed circa 1891-92.

Louis-Alfred (Athis) Natanson, Paris

Denise Tabah (née Natanson), Rueil-Malmaison (acquired by descent from the above)

(possibly) Florence Seminario, Paris

Henri Tabah, Rueil-Malmaison

Sotheby's, London 12 April 1972, lot 25 (consigned by the above)

E.V Thaw & Co., New York

Art Council Establishment, Vaduz

Josefowitz Collection (acquired in 1984)

Christie's, New York, 8 May 2002, lot 218 (consigned by the above)

Acquired from the above by the present owner

Paris, Les Cadres (Bolette Natanson), Peintres de La Revue blanche, 1936, no. 52 (titled La Raccommodeuse)

Vevey, Musée Jenisch, Paris 1900, 1954, no. 213

Paris, Galerie Maeght, La Revue Blanche, 1966, no. 58, p. 27 

Munich, Haus der Kunst, Edouard Vuillard - K.-X. Roussel, 1968, no. 11

Houston, Museum of Fine Arts; Washington, D.C., Phillips Collection and Brooklyn Museum, The Intimate Interiors of Edouard Vuillard, 1989-1990, no. 10 (titled Woman Mending)

Lausanne, Musée Cantonal des Beaux-Arts, Edouard Vuillard, La Porte entrebâillée, 2000-2001, no. 10, p. 171

Cécile Guy, "Le Barc de Bouteville," L'Oeil, no. 124, 1965, p. 37, illustrated in color

Exh. Cat., Galerie Maeght, ed., Derrière le Miroir, La Revue Blanche no. 158-59, 1966, no. 58, p. 27

George L. Mauner, The Nabis: Their History and Their Art, 1888-1896, Doctoral dissertation, Columbia University, 1978, pp. 235 and 302, fig. 88, illustrated

Anne Georges, Symbolisme et décor, Vuillard, 1888-1905, Doctoral dissertation, Université Paris I, 1982, p. 42

Émilie Daniel, Vuillard, l'espace de l'intimité, Doctoral dissertation, Institut d'Art et d'Archéologie, 1984, p. 389, fig. 141, illustrated

Patricia Ciaffa, The Portraits of Edouard Vuillard, Doctoral dissertation, Columbia University, 1985, pp. 192-94, fig. 77, illustrated

Elizabeth Wynne Easton, Edouard Vuillard's Interiors of the 1890s, Doctoral disseration, Yale University, 1989, pp. 26 and 36

Arthur Ellridge, Gauguin et les Nabis, Paris 1993, p. 90, illustrated in color

Antoine Salomon and Guy Cogeval, Vuillard: The Inexhaustible Glance, Critical Catalogue of Paintings and Pastels, vol. I, Paris 2003, no. IV-11, p. 232, illustrated in color