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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Feb 28, 2019 | Christie's | London | Hidden Treasures: Impressionist & Modern Masterpieces from an Important Private Collection | 14 | $****** - ****** | La femme au fauteuil (Misia et Thadée Natanson) |
paintings
92.7 x 74.6 cm (36.5 x 29.38 in)
oil on paper laid down on canvas
inscribed 'E. Vuillard’ (lower right)
Vente au bénéfice du monument Cézanne, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 22 May 1911, lot 21 (a donation from the artist).
Galerie Bernheim-Jeune, Paris (no. 18767), by whom acquired at the above sale.
Gaston Bernheim de Villers, Paris, by whom acquired from the above, on 3 January 1913, until at least October 1937.
Sam Salz, New York, after 1948.
Mr & Mrs Nate B. Spingold, New York, by 1953.
The Museum of Modern Art, New York (no. 270.57), a gift from the above in 1957.
Eugene V. Thaw, New York, by whom acquired from the above, in May 1986.
Acquavella Galleries, Inc., New York, by whom acquired from the above.
Acquired from the above by the present owners, on 28 August 1986.
Paris, Galerie Bernheim-Jeune, Vuillard, Oeuvres récentes (panneaux décoratifs et tableaux), December 1913 (not listed).
Paris, Petit Palais, Les Maîtres de l’art indépendant, 1895-1937, June - October 1937, no. 24, p. 58.
Paris, Galerie Bernheim-Jeune, Oeuvres de Vuillard de 1890 à 1910, January - February 1938, no. 38.
Cleveland, The Cleveland Museum of Art, Edouard Vuillard, January - March 1954, p. 102 (illustrated p. 51; with incorrect dimensions); this exhibition later travelled to New York, The Museum of Modern Art, April - June 1954.
Boston, Museum of Fine Arts, European Masters of our Time, October - November 1957, no. 133, n.p. (illustrated pl. 3; dated '1897', with incorrect dimensions and medium).
New York, The Museum of Modern Art, Works of Art: Given or Promised, October - November 1958, p. 51 (illustrated).
New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Nate and Frances Spingold Collection, March - June 1960, n.p. (titled 'The Conversation').
New York, Wildenstein & Co., Inc., Vuillard, October - November 1964, no. 15, n.p. (illustrated; with incorrect dimensions and medium).
New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Paintings from Private Collections, Summer 1967, no. 109.
New York, Wildenstein & Co., Inc., From Realism to Symbolism: Whistler and His World, March - April 1971, no. 140, p. 135 (illustrated pl. 59; with incorrect dimensions and medium); this exhibition later travelled to Philadelphia, Philadelphia Museum of Art.
New York, Wildenstein & Co., Inc., Faces from the World of Impressionism and Post-Impressionism, November - December 1972, no. 69, n.p. (illustrated; with incorrect dimensions).
New York, University of Rochester Memorial Art Gallery, Artists of La Revue Blanche: Bonnard, Toulouse-Lautrec, Vallotton, Vuillard, January - April 1984, no. 78, p. 54 (illustrated p. 55).
Washington, D.C., National Gallery of Art, Edouard Vuillard, January - April 2003, no. 148, p. 219 (illustrated p. 218; with incorrect dimensions).
La Vie, no. 2, Paris, 15 January 1914 (illustrated).
'Vuillard: A Neglected Painter of a Gentle World Regains his Lost Fame', in Life, vol. 37, no. 18, New York, 1 November 1954, p. 78 (illustrated).
A.H. Barr, ed., 'Works of Art: Given or Promised', in The Bulletin of the Museum of Modern Art, vol. 26, no. 1, New York, Autumn 1958, p. 51 (illustrated).
S. Preston, 'Current and Forthcoming Exhibitions', in Burlington Magazine, vol. 102, no. 686, London, May 1960, p. 229 (illustrated fig. 51, p. 227).
P. Huisman, 'Misia, Muse de Vuillard', in Connaissance des arts, no. 133, March 1963, p. 63 (illustrated; with incorrect dimensions).
F.T. Ross, 'Gallery Previews in New York', in Pictures on Exhibit, vol. 38, no. 2, New York, November 1964, p. 5 (illustrated).
J. Lanes, 'Current and Forthcoming Exhibitions', in The Burlington Magazine, vol. 106, no. 741, London, December 1964, no. 15, p. 591 (illustrated fig. 45, p. 589; with incorrect dimensions).
C. Roger-Marx, Vuillard: Intérieurs, Paris, 1968, pl. 6 (illustrated; with incorrect dimensions).
A. Gold & R. Fizdale, Misia: The Life of Misia Sert, New York, 1980, p. 114 (illustrated).
L. Oakley, Edouard Vuillard, New York, 1981, p. 10 (illustrated pl. 7).
A. Georges, Symbolisme et décor (Vuillard: 1888-1905), vol. I, Paris, 1982, pp. 72 & 220 (with incorrect dimensions).
P. Ciaffa, The Portraits of Edouard Vuillard, New York, 1985, pp. 255-256 (illustrated fig. 123).
E. Daniel, Vuillard: L’Espace de L'Intimité, Paris, 1985, pp. 86 & 89 (illustrated fig. 24, n.p.).
S. Preston, Edouard Vuillard, New York, 1985, p. 70 (illustrated p. 71; with incorrect dimensions).
M. Makarius, Vuillard, Paris, 1989, pp. 19 & 102 (illustrated p. 22; with incorrect dimensions).
E.W. Easton, The Intimate Interiors of Edouard Vuillard, exh. cat., Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, 1989, pp. 103, 108-110, 113 & 125 (illustrated fig. 79, p. 102; with incorrect dimensions and medium).
A. Dumas & G. Cogeval, Vuillard, exh. cat., Musée des Beaux-Arts, Lyon, 1990, p. 76 (illustrated; with incorrect dimensions).
G. Bernier, La Revue blanche, Paris, 1991, p. 316 (illustrated p. 68; with incorrect dimensions).
G.L. Groom, Edouard Vuillard: Painter-Decorator, Patrons and Projects, 1892-1912, New Haven, 1993, p. 94 (illustrated fig. 161, p. 95; with incorrect dimensions).
E.W. Easton, 'Vuillard’s photography: Artistry and accident', in Apollo, June 1994, p. 15 (illustrated fig. 4, p. 11; with incorrect dimensions).
A. Salomon & G. Cogeval, Vuillard: The Inexhaustible Glance, Critical Catalogue of Paintings and Pastels, vol. I, Paris, 2003, no. VI-34, pp. 476-477 (illustrated p. 476).
inscribed 'E. Vuillard’ (lower right)
oil on paper laid down on canvas
36 1/2 x 29 3/8 in. (92.5 x 74.5 cm.)
Executed in 1896
