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Le poulailler du Château des Clayes (The henhouse at Château des Clayes)
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Edouard Vuillard (1868-1940)
Le poulailler du Château des Clayes (The henhouse at Château des Clayes)
stamped 'EVuillard' (Lugt 2497a; lower left and lower right)
distemper on paper, laid down on canvas
50 1/2 x 45 1/2 in. (128.5 x 115.5 cm.)
Executed in 1939
Le poulailler du Château des Clayes (The henhouse at Château des Clayes)
stamped 'EVuillard' (Lugt 2497a; lower left and lower right)
distemper on paper, laid down on canvas
50 1/2 x 45 1/2 in. (128.5 x 115.5 cm.)
Executed in 1939
Provenance
Dr & Mme Prosper-Émile Weil, Paris, acquired directly from the artist, and thence by descent; sale, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 25 March 1990, lot 56.
Anonymous sale, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 26 November 1993, lot 24.
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner.
Anonymous sale, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 26 November 1993, lot 24.
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner.
Literature
A. Salomon & G. Cogeval, Vuillard, The Inexhaustible Glance, Critical Catalogue of Paintings and Pastels, vol. III, Paris, 2003, no. XII-355, p. 1613 (illustrated).
Exhibited
Paris, Galerie Bernheim-Jeune, Vuillard, May - June 1953, no. 59, n.p. (titled 'Le potager des Clayes', dated '1938').
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