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Property of a Gentleman

Édouard Vuillard

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