ID 1178676
Lot 154 | Édouard Vuillard (1868-1940)
Estimate value
€ 80 000 – 120 000
Étude pour "Madame Hessel lisant son journal devant la cheminée"
avec le cachet 'E Vuillard' (en bas à gauche; Lugt 2497a)
peinture à la colle sur papier marouflé sur toile
114.2 x 57 cm.
Peint en 1917
stamped 'E Vuillard' (lower left; Lugt 2497a)
peinture à la colle on paper laid down on canvas
45 x 22 3⁄8 in.
Painted in 1917
Provenance
Atelier de l'artiste.
François Reichenbach, Paris (en 1954).
E. J. van Wisselingh & Cie., Amsterdam (en 1955).
Dalzell Hatfield Galleries, Los Angeles (en 1956).
Gary Cooper, États Unis.
Mrs John Converse, New York.
Acquavella Galleries, New York.
John T. Dorrance, Jr., Philadelphie (acquis auprès de celles-ci en octobre 1968); sa vente, Sotheby's, New York, 19 octobre 1989, lot 114.
Vente, Christie's, New York, 9 novembre 1999, lot 260.
Collection particulière, New York (acquis au cours de cette vente); vente, Sotheby's, New York, 10 mai 2016, lot 392.
Acquis au cours de cette vente par le propriétaire actuel.
Literature
B. Thomson, Vuillard, New York, 1988, p. 123 (illustré in situ).
A. Salomon et G. Cogeval, Vuillard, Le Regard innombrable, Catalogue critique des peintures et pastels, Paris, 2003, vol. III, p. 1267, no. X-194 (illustré en couleurs; dimensions erronées).
Exhibited
Amsterdam, E. J. Van Wisselingh & Co., Maîtres français XIXme et XXme siècles, octobre-novembre 1955, no. 36 (illustré; daté 'vers 1905').
Further details
Avec son frère Gaston, Josse Hessel dirige la Galerie Bernheim-Jeune. En recherchant activement des artistes contemporains talentueux et en promouvant inlassablement leurs œuvres par le biais de mécènes et de commandes, les Hessel étaient parmi les marchands d'art les plus en vue de leur époque. Vuillard rencontre pour la première fois les frères Hessel et la femme de Josse, Lucy, alors qu'il rend visite à Félix Vallotton près de Lausanne. Un lien fort se crée rapidement entre eux et ils deviennent inséparables. Le groupe passe alots presque toutes les soirées ensemble dans l'appartement parisien des Hessel, voyageant ensemble en Bretagne ou en Normandie pendant l'été. Quelques années plus tard, Vuillard devint même un invité semi-permanent dans leurs maisons de campagne situées juste à l'extérieur de Paris.La présente œuvre fait ainsi partie d'une série de peintures représentant Lucy Hessel lisant un journal dans son appartement parisien. Dans une discussion sur ces œuvres, Belinda Thomson a commenté : "Vuillard a également retravaillé à plusieurs reprises un portrait de Lucy Hessel, assise dans la chaleur et le désordre douillet de son boudoir de la rue de Naples. L'attention obsessionnelle qu'il porte aux problèmes techniques - la structure tendue de la composition, la multiplication des couleurs, des textures et des surfaces réfléchissantes - peut être considérée comme symptomatique du besoin de se réfugier loin des horreurs du monde extérieur, de se concentrer sur une image rassurante et familière. Dans les cinq états différents de cette composition artificielle et dense, la zone la plus claire et le point focal reste le journal ouvert, une bouée de sauvetage d'informations en ces temps critiques" (B. Thompson, op. cit., p. 123). La version finale de cette œuvre est conservée dans les prestigieuses collections du Musée d'Orsay à Paris.
Alongside his brother, Gaston, Josse Hessel ran Galerie Bernheim-Jeune. Actively seeking out gifted contemporaries and tirelessly promoting their artists works by way of garnering patrons and commissions, the Hessels were among the most prominent art dealers of their time. Vuillard first met the Hessel brothers, and Josse's wife, Lucy, while visiting Félix Vallotton near Lausanne. A quick and strong bond formed between them, and they quickly became inseparable. They spent nearly every evening together at the Hessel's Paris apartment, travelled to Brittany or Normandy together during the summertime, and years later Vuillard would become a semi-permanent guest at their country homes just outside of Paris.
The present work is one of a series of paintings depicting Lucy Hessel reading a newspaper in her Parisian apartment. In a discussion of these works, Belinda Thomson commented: "Vuillard also repeatedly reworked a portrait of Lucy Hessel, seated in the warmth and cosy clutter of her rue de Naples boudoir. His obsessive attention to technical problems—to the taut structure of the composition, the multiplication of colors, textures and reflective surfaces—might be seen as symptomatic of the need to take refuge from the horrors of the outside world, to concentrate on an image of reassurance and familiarity. In all the five different states of this contrived and dense composition, the lightest area and the focal point remains the open newspaper, a lifeline of information at these critical times" (B. Thompson, op. cit., p. 123).
The final version of the present work is housed in the prestigious collections of the Musée d’Orsay in Paris.
Artist: | Édouard Vuillard (1868 - 1940) |
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Applied technique: | Painted, Tempera |
Genre: | Portrait |
Auction house category: | Paintings, Watercolors, Drawings, Paintings |
Artist: | Édouard Vuillard (1868 - 1940) |
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Applied technique: | Painted, Tempera |
Genre: | Portrait |
Auction house category: | Paintings, Watercolors, Drawings, Paintings |
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