EDOUARD VUILLARD (1868-1940) - photo 1

EDOUARD VUILLARD (1868-1940)

Lot 232
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ID 1306164
Lot 232 | EDOUARD VUILLARD (1868-1940)
Estimate value
£ 250 000 – 550 000
EDOUARD VUILLARD (1868-1940)
Paravent de Stéphane Natanson. Figures dans un intérieur
glue-based distemper on linen, laid down on canvas
50 ¾ x 66 7/8 in. (129 x 170 cm.)
Executed in 1898




Provenance

Stéphane Natanson, Paris, by whom commissioned from the artist in 1898.
Louis Natanson, Paris, by descent from the above in 1905.
Maurice Laffaille, Paris.
Lefevre Gallery [Alex Reid], Ltd., London, by 1959.
Private collection, London, by whom acquired from the above and thence by descent to the present owner.



Literature

A. Segard, Peintres d'aujourd'hui, les décorateurs, vol. II, Paris, 1914, p. 321 (titled ‘Un second paravent pour Mme Desmarais' and catalogued with incorrect ownership).
J. Wilson-Bareau, 'Édouard Vuillard et les princes Bibesco', in Revue de l'art, 1986, p. 46 (titled ‘Un second paravent pour Mme Desmarais: Figures dans un intérieur’).
C. Frèches-Thory & A. Terrasse, Les Nabis, 1990, pp. 170 & 172-173 (illustrated pp. 172-173; titled ‘Paravent à 4 feuilles pour Stéphane Natanson’, incorrectly dated ‘circa 1895’ and catalogued with incorrect medium).
G. Groom, Édouard Vuillard, Painter-Decorator, Patrons and Projects, 1892-1912, New Haven, 1993, p. 41 (illustrated no. 62; catalogued with incorrect medium).
S. Houghton Libby, 'An Adjustable Means of Expression, A Selection of Édouard Vuillard's Decorative Works of the 1890s', in Studies in the Decorative Arts, vol. I, no. II, Spring 1994, pp. 42-45 (titled 'The Nathanson screen' and incorrectly dated '1895').
A. Salomon & G. Cogeval, Vuillard, The Inexhaustible Glance, Critical Catalogue of Paintings and Pastels, vol. I, 1868-1940, Milan, 2003, no. VI-101, p. 521 (illustrated p. 520).



Exhibited

Washington, National Gallery of Art, The Folding Image, Screens by Western Artists of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, March - September 1984, no. 7, pp. 146-148 (illustrated pp. 146 & 148; titled ‘Four-panel Screen’ and incorrectly dated ‘circa 1895’); this exhibition later travelled to New Haven, Yale University Art Gallery, October 1984 - January 1985.
Washington, National Gallery of Art, Édouard Vuillard, January - April 2003, no 141, pp. 200-201 (illustrated); this exhibition later travelled to Montreal, The Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, May - August 2003; Paris, Galeries nationales du Grand Palais, September 2003 - January 2004; and London, Royal Academy of Arts, January – April 2004.
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