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Édouard Vuillard

Les messieurs en noir

Auction Closed

December 7, 05:45 PM GMT

Estimate

1,500,000 - 2,000,000 GBP

Lot Details

Description

Édouard Vuillard

1868 - 1940

Les messieurs en noir


stamped E. Vuillard and indistinctly numbered (lower right)

oil on board laid down on panel

57.8 by 34.7cm., 22¾ by 13⅝in.

Painted circa 1895-99.

Estate of the artist

Jacques Salomon, Paris (by descent from the above) 

Wildenstein & Co., New York (acquired from the above in 1971)

Dr Joseph Goldyne, San Francisco (acquired from the above in October 1972)

Thomas Gibson Replica Handbags , London (acquired from the above in November 1992)

Acquired from the above in 1993

New York, Wildenstein & Co., La revue blanche: Paris in the Days of Post-Impressionism and Symbolism, 1983, illustrated in the catalogue (titled The Physician's Visit and as dating from circa 1900)
Antoine Salomon & Guy Cogeval, Vuillard: The Inexhaustible Glance, Critical Catalogue of Paintings and Pastels, Milan, 2003, vol. I, no. V-92, illustrated in colour p. 426