Femme assise à la blouse à petits pois et jupe à bordure

Details

Edouard Vuillard (1868-1940)
Femme assise à la blouse à petits pois et jupe à bordure
with the Haviland & Co. (Limoges) mark (on the base)
porcelain plate
Diameter: 9½ in. (24 cm.)
Executed in 1895

Provenance

Jean Schopfer, by whom commissioned in 1895.
Galerie Druet, Paris, possibly by 1938.
Acquired by the present owner in the 1960s.

Literature

J. Schopfer, 'Modern Decoration', The Architectural Record, vol. 6, 1897, no. 3, pp. 252-255.
A. Segard, Peintres d'aujourd'hui - Les Décorateurs, vol. 2, Paris, 1914, p. 288, no. 1.
J. Salomon, Auprès de Vuillard, Paris, 1953, p. 33.
N.J. Troy, 'Toward a Redefinition of Tradition in French Design', Design Issues, vol. 1, no. 2, Autumn 1984, pp. 58-59.
G.P. Weisberg, Art Nouveau Bing: Paris Style 1900, New York, 1986 pp. 69, 94, 95.
C. Frèches-Thory & A. Terrasse, Les Nabis, Paris, 1990, pp. 191-192.
G. Groom, Edouard Vuillard, Painter-Decorator, Patrons and Projects, 1892-1912, New Haven & London, 1993, pp. 71, 74-76, 99, 100.
A. Leduc Beaulieu, 'An Art Nouveau experiment: Edouard Vuillard's Porcelain Wedding Service for Jean Schopfer, 1895', Studies in the Decorative Arts, vol. XIII, no. 1, New York, Fall-Winter 2005-2006, pp. 72-90, fig. 14 (illustrated p. 87).
Exh. cat. L'Art Nouveau, La Maison Bing, Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam, 2006, pp. 118-119.

Exhibited

Paris, Maison de l'Art Nouveau (Siegfried Bing), Salon de l'Art Nouveau, December 1895 - January 1896.

Special notice

No VAT will be charged on the hammer price, but VAT at 17.5% will be added to the buyer's premium, which is invoiced on a VAT inclusive basis.

Lot Essay

Antoine Salomon has confirmed the authenticity of this work.

For further details on this lot, please see Belinda Thomson's introduction pp. 10 & 11.

Edouard Vuillard, The Album, 1895, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Walter H. and Leonore Annenberg Collection, Gift of Walter H. and Leonore Annenberg, 2000.
© ADAGP, Paris and DACS, London 2006

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