Femme avec un chapeau à plumes et une blouse rayée

Details

Edouard Vuillard (1868-1940)
Femme avec un chapeau à plumes et une blouse rayée
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 1960.

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, 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. 5 (illustrated p. 78).
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.
Paris, Musée des Arts Decoratifs, Edouard Vuillard, May - July 1938, no. 321.
Washington, D.C., National Gallery of Art, Edouard Vuillard, January - April 2003, no. 135 (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 - January 2004, and London, Royal Academy of Arts, January - April 2004.

Special notice

VAT rate of 5% is payable on hammer price plus buyer's premium.

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.

Edouard Vuillard, La table de toilette, 1895. Private collection.
© ADAGP, Paris and DACS, London 2006.

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