Lot Essay
Antoine Salomon and Guy Cogeval will include this painting in the forthcoming Vuillard catalogue raisonné being prepared under the sponsorship of the Wildenstein Institute.
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PROPERTY FROM THE ESTATE OF MATHILDA GOLDMAN
Born in 1906, Tillie Goldman was very much a child of the 20th century. While her parents were both immigrants rooted in the old world, Tillie was an All-American, New York City girl. Coming of age in the heady, liberating years between the wars, Tillie embraced her century and her city with a passion and energy that lasted a lifetime.
The young and deeply inquisitive Tillie embarked on a life-long quest for knowledge. With no formal education beyond high school, she was a model of the self-educated woman, taking course after course at Columbia's College of General Studies, the New School and the Jefferson School of Labor Studies. Drawn to history in general, and art history in particular, she was extremely knowledgeable about all aspects of Western European art, history and culture. She studied French, Italian and Spanish and was a serious student of the classical piano.
Tillie loved New York City. It was, she said, 'my town', just as Central Park was 'my estate'. She lived her whole life on one edge or other of the park-- first in Harlem, then on Central Park West and finally on Fifth Avenue. She spent countless hours of countless days walking round the Reservoir with her family, riding in the Meadow and figure-skating on Wollman Rink. Even during the last years of her life, hardly a day passed when Tillie could not be found sitting on 'my bench', near the entrance at 61st and Fifth.
Ever a child of her era, Tillie was deeply moved by the spirit of change that lifted America during the 1930s. Inspired by FDR, Fiorello La Guardia and the progressive leaders of the day, she was an ardent New Dealer, and a sincere and deeply committed supporter of the Spanish Loyalists. In the years following the Second World War, she invested her energy in Israel's kibbutz movement. She and her husband Charlie made many trips to Israel in that country's early days, lending support however they could.
By the 1950s Tillie and Charlie were passionate art collectors. Guided by their own instinctive and eclectic good taste, and aided by brilliant dealers like Sam Salz and Mathias Komor, they began to assemble Old Master drawings, Impressionist pictures, antiquities and African artworks. Benefactors as well as collectors, they were founders of the Israel Museum, benefactors of The Metropolitan Museum of Art and patrons of the Goldman-Schwartz Art Studios at Brandeis University in Boston.
Tillie's home was an exciting and stimulating place. Sharing it were her children-- first the late Robert, and then Barbara, myself and Tony --and often her seven grandchildren and four great-grandchildren. It was filled not only with great art but also with the sounds of music and stimulating conversation.
BY MARK GOLDMAN, TILLIE GOLDMAN'S SON
Edouard Vuillard (1868-1940)
Nature morte avec bouteille et carafe
Details
Edouard Vuillard (1868-1940)
Nature morte avec bouteille et carafe
stamped with signature 'E Vuillard' (Lugt 2497a; lower left)
oil on canvas
16 x 13 in. (40.7 x 33.1 cm.)
Painted circa 1887-1888
Nature morte avec bouteille et carafe
stamped with signature 'E Vuillard' (Lugt 2497a; lower left)
oil on canvas
16 x 13 in. (40.7 x 33.1 cm.)
Painted circa 1887-1888
Provenance
Estate of the artist.
Sam Salz, New York.
Acquired from the above by the late owner.
Sam Salz, New York.
Acquired from the above by the late owner.
Exhibited
Paris, Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Exposition Edouard Vuillard, May-July 1938, p. 2, no. 6 (possibly; as Carafe, bouteille et verre).
Toronto, Art Gallery of Ontario; San Francisco, California Palace of the Legion of Honor, and The Art Institute of Chicago, Edouard Vuillard, September 1971-March 1972, p. 228, no. 1 (illustrated, p. 141).
Katonah, New York, The Katonah Gallery, The Intimate Eye of Edouard Vuillard, May-August 1989, p. 46, no. 3 (illustrated, p. 19; dated circa 1889-1890).
Toronto, Art Gallery of Ontario; San Francisco, California Palace of the Legion of Honor, and The Art Institute of Chicago, Edouard Vuillard, September 1971-March 1972, p. 228, no. 1 (illustrated, p. 141).
Katonah, New York, The Katonah Gallery, The Intimate Eye of Edouard Vuillard, May-August 1989, p. 46, no. 3 (illustrated, p. 19; dated circa 1889-1890).