LOT DETAILS

Materials:

oil on canvas

Measurements:

31.50 in. (80.00 cm.) (height) by 25.20 in. (64.00 cm.) (width)

Markings:

stamped with signature 'E Vuillard' (Lugt 2497a; lower left)

Exhibited:

Brussels, Palais des Beaux-Arts, Vuillard (1868-1940), October 1946, no. 23. London, Wildenstein & Co., Ltd., Edouard Vuillard, June 1948, no. 6. Paris, Galerie Jean Charpentier, Vuillard, October-December 1948, no. 10. Basel, Kunsthalle, Edouard Vuillard (1868-1940), Charles Hug, March-May 1949, no. 1. Bern, Kunsthalle, Die Maler der Revue Blanche, Toulouse-Lautrec und die Nabis, March-April 1951, no. 167 (titled Deux jeunes filles de dos). Albi, Musée Toulouse-Lautrec, Toulouse-Lautrec, ses amis et ses maîtres, August-October 1951, no. 338. The Cleveland Museum of Art and New York, The Museum of Modern Art, Edouard Vuillard, January-June 1954, pp. 12 and 100 (illustrated in color, p. 17). Buenos Aires, Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes; Santiago, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo and Caracas, Museo de Bellas Artes, De Cézanne à Miró, May-August 1968, p. 18 (illustrated). Sydney, Art Gallery of New South Wales; Melbourne, National Gallery of Victoria and New York, The Museum of Modern Art, Modern Masters. Manet to Matisse. The Museum of Modern Art, April-September 1975, p. 231, no. 110 (illustrated). London, Royal Academy of Arts, Post-Impressionism. Cross Currents in European Painting, November 1979-March 1980, p. 147, no. 233 (illustrated). Washington, D.C., The National Gallery of Art, Post-Impressionism. Cross Currents in European and American Painting 1880-1906, May-September 1980, no. 145 (illustrated in color). Zurich, Kunsthaus and Paris, Grand Palais and Musée d'Orsay, Die Nabis Propheten der Moderne, May 1993-January 1994, no. 154 (illustrated in color). London, The National Gallery (on extended loan) 1994-2008.

Literature:

C. Schweicher, Die Bildraum gestaltung, das Dekorative und das Ornamentale im Werke von Edouard Vuillard, Zurich, 1949, p. 59. B. Dorival, Les Peintres du vingtième siècle: Nabis, fauves, cubistes, Paris, 1957, vol. I, p. 21. ArtNews, September 1964, vol. 63, no. 5 (illustrated in color, p. 46). S. Preston, Edouard Vuillard, New York, 1971, no. 15. J. Russell, "The Vocation of Edouard Vuillard," in Edouard Vuillard 1868-1940, exh. cat., Toronto, Art Gallery of Ontario; San Francisco, California Palace of the Legion of Honor and The Art Institute of Chicago, September 1971-March 1972 (illustrated, pl. 5). A. Georges, Symbolisme et décor Vuillard 1888-1905, Paris, 1982, p. 91. E. Daniel, Vuillard, l'espace de l'intimité, Paris, 1984, p. 385, fig. 140 (illustrated). M. Makarius, Vuillard, Paris, 1989, p. 65 (illustrated in color, p. 79). G. Cogeval, Vuillard. Le temps détourné, Paris, 1993, pp. 26-27 (illustrated in color). A. Salomon and G. Cogeval, Vuillard: Catalogue critique des peintures et pastels, Paris, 2003, vol. I, pp. 370-371, no. V-17 (illustrated in color).

Provenance:

Ker-Xavier Roussel, Paris (by descent from the artist). Jacques Roussel, Paris. Wildenstein & Co., Inc., New York. Walter Ross, New York. Adelaide Ross Stachelberg, New York (by descent from the above); sale, Sotheby Parke Bernet, New York, 17 May 1978, lot 47. Acquired at the above sale by the family of the present owner.