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Property of a Gentleman
La Grand-mère à l'évier
Auction Closed
May 16, 09:00 PM GMT
Estimate
200,000 - 300,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Property of a Gentleman
Edouard Vuillard
1888 - 1978
La Grand-mère à l'évier
stamped E Vuillard (lower right)
oil on card mounted on cradled panel
8 ⅜ by 6 ¾ in.
21.4 by 17.2 cm.
Executed circa 1890.
Estate of the artist
Sam Salz, New York
William and Edith Mayer Goetz, Los Angeles (acquired as a gift from the above by 1951)
Christie's, New York, 14 November 1988, lot 13 (consigned by the above)
Galerie Bellier, Paris
Private Collection, London (acquired from the above in 2007)
Sotheby's, London, 27 February 2019, lot 162 (consigned by the above)
Acquired from the above by the present owner
Alfred M. Frankfurter, "The Goetz Collection", Art News, vol. 50, no. 5, 1951, p. 57, illustrated
Exh. Cat., New York, Museum of Modern Art, Post-Impressionism. From Van Gogh to Gauguin, 1956, pp. 418-19, illustrated
Ann Dumas and Guy Cogeval, ed., Vuillard, Paris, 1990, no. 27, p. 56, illustrated in color
Guy Cogeval, Vuillard. Le Temps détourné, Paris, 1993, p. 22, illustrated in color
Natasha Staller, "Babel. Hermetic Languages, Universal Languages, and Anti-Languages in Fin de Siècle Parisian Culture", Art Bulletin, vol. 76, no. 2, 1994, fig. 6, illustrated
Antoine Salomon and Guy Cogeval, Vuillard: The Inexhaustible Glance, Critical Catalogue of Paintings and Pastels, vol. I, Paris, 2003, no. II-13, p. 75, illustrated in color
San Francisco, California Palace of the Legion of Honor, The Collection of Mr & Mrs William Goetz, 1959, no. 66, illustrated (titled My Grandmother and dated 1892)
Houston, Museum of Fine Arts; Washington, D.C., The Phillips Collection and New York, Brooklyn Museum, The Intimate Interiors of Édouard Vuillard, 1989 - 1990, n.n.
Lyon, Musée des Beaux-Arts; Barcelona, Fundación Caixa de Pensiones and Nantes, Musée des Beaux-Arts, Vuillard, 1990 - 1991, no. 27, illustrated in color (titled La Femme à la soupière and dated circa 1890-91)
Berlin, Kunsthandel Wolfgang Werner, Édouard Vuillard. Intérieurs et paysages de Paris, 1992, no. 2, illustrated in color (titled Grand-mère à la soupière and with incorrect medium)
Gifu, Japan, Museum of Fine Arts, Tournant de la peinture, 1993, no. 178, illustrated
Zurich, Kunsthaus, Die Nabis, Propheten der Moderne, 1993, no. 142, illustrated in color
Paris, Grand Palais, Nabis 1888-1900, 1993, no. 142, illustrated in color
Florence, Palazzo Corsini and Montreal, Musée des Beaux-Arts, Il Tempo des Nabis, 1998, no. 6 [Florence], no. 157 [Montreal], illustrated in color
Saint-Tropez, Musée de l'Annonciade and Lausanne, Musée Cantonal des Beaux-Arts, Edouard Vuillard. La Porte entrebâillée, 2000 - 2001, no. 6, illustrated in color (titled La Grand-mère à la soupière)
Washington, D.C., National Gallery of Art; Montreal Museum of Fine Arts; Paris, Galeries nationales du Grand Palais and London, Royal Academy of Arts, Edouard Vuillard, 2003 - 2004, no. 4, illustrated in color
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