Femme à la blouse avec des manches bouffantes, large jupe à carreaux et chapeau à plume

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Edouard Vuillard (1868-1940)
Femme à la blouse avec des manches bouffantes, large jupe à carreaux et chapeau à plume
with the Haviland & Co (Limoges) mark (on the base)
porcelain plate
Diameter: 9¼ in. (23.8 cm.)
Executed in 1895

Provenance

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

Literature

J. Schopfer, 'Modern Decoration', The Architectural Record, vol. 6, 1897, 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.
N.J. Troy, Modernism and the Decorative Arts in France: Art Nouveau to Le Corbusier, New Haven & London, 1991, p. 24 (illustrated p. 25, pl. 3).
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. 3 (illustrated p. 76).

Exhibited

Paris, Maison de l'Art Nouveau (Siegfried Bing), Salon de l'Art Nouveau, December 1895 - January 1896.
Paris, Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Edouard Vuillard, May - July 1938, no. 321.
Zurich, Kunsthaus, Die Nabis: Propheten der Moderne 1888-1900, May - August 1993, no. 219; this exhibition later travelled to Paris, Galeries Nationales du Grand Palais, Les Nabis 1888-1900, September 1993 - January 1994, pp. 397-398 (illustrated).
Washington, D.C., National Gallery of Art, Edouard Vuillard, January - April 2003, no. 131 (illustrated in the catalogue p. 193); this exhibition later travelled to 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.
Amsterdam, Van Gogh Museum, L'Art Nouveau, La Maison Bing, November 2004 - February 2005, no. 125 (illustrated p. 119); this exhibition later travelled to Munich, Villa Stuck, March - July 2005, and Brussels, Musées Royaux des Beaux-Arts de Belgique, March - September 2006.

Special notice

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Lot Essay

This work is sold with a photo-certificate from Jacques Salomon, dated A Paris le 5 octobre 1960. Antoine Salomon has confirmed the authenticity of this work.

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

(Fig. 1) Edouard Vuillard, Intimité, 1896. Paris, Musée du Petit-Palais, © Photo RMN © Bulloz
© ADAGP, Paris and DACS, London 2006

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