Femme à la blouse à gros pois arrangeant un bouquet

Details

Edouard Vuillard (1868-1940)
Femme à la blouse à gros pois arrangeant un bouquet
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, 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, 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 (illustrated).
N.J. Troy, Modernism and the Decorative Arts in France: Art Nouveau to Le Corbusier, New Haven & London, 1991, p. 24 (illustrated p. 35, pl. 3).
G. Groom, Edouard Vuillard, Painter-Decorator, Patrons and Projects, 1892-1912, New Haven & London, 1993, pp. 71, 74-76, 99, 100 (illustrated p. 74).
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. 2 (illustrated p. 75).
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 Décoratifs, Edouard Vuillard, May - July 1938, no. 321.
Washington, D.C., National Gallery of Art, Edouard Vuillard, January - April 2003, no. 136 (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.
Marseilles, Musée de la Faïence, Château Pastré, De la couleur et du feu: céramiques d'artistes de 1885 à nos jours, June - September 2000, no. 11 (illustrated in the catalogue pp. 29 & 141).

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, Woman in a striped dress, Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon, Image © 2006 Board of Trustees, National Gallery of Art, Washington.
ADAGP, Paris and DACS, London 2006

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