Edouard Vuillard (1868-1940)

Etude pour le portrait de La Comtesse Jean de Polignac

Details

Edouard Vuillard (1868-1940)
Etude pour le portrait de La Comtesse Jean de Polignac
peinture à la colle on paper laid down on canvas
33½ x 27¼in. (85.1 x 62.9cm.)
Painted in 1928

Provenance

Estate of the artist
Galerie Paul Pétridès, Paris
Anon. sale, Palais Galliéra, Paris, June 19, 1962, lot 91 (illustrated)
Pierre M. Bloch, Paris (acquired at the above sale)
Anon. sale, Palais Galliéra, Paris, Nov. 29, 1969, lot 64 (illustrated)
Anon. sale, Sotheby's, London, March 26, 1980, lot 242
J.P.L. Fine Arts, London (acquired at the above sale)
Lillian Heidenberg, New York

Exhibited

London, J.P.L. Fine Arts, May-June, 1980, no. 28
London, J.P.L. Fine Arts, Portrait and Related Studies in Pencil and Pastel, E. Vuillard (1868-1940), May-July, 1983, p. 41 (illustrated)

Lot Essay

This work is a study for the oil portrait of La Comtesse Jean de Polignac, née Marie-Blanche de Pictro, painted in 1929. (coll. Musée d'Orsay, Paris)
This painting will be included in the forthcoming Vuillard catalogue raisonné being prepared by Antoine Salomon and Annette Leduc Beaulieu from the records and under the responsibility of Antoine Salomon.