Property of a Gentleman
Le Poulailler du Château des Clayes
Lot closes
July 16, 04:14 PM GMT
Estimate
50,000 - 70,000 USD
Starting Bid
35,000 USD
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Description
Property of a Gentleman
Édouard Vuillard
1868 - 1940
Le Poulailler du Château des Clayes
stamped E Vuillard (lower left); stamped E Vuillard (lower right)
distemper on paper mounted on canvas
50 ½ by 45 ½ in.
129 by 116 cm.
Executed in 1939.
Dr. and Mme. Prosper-Émile Weil, Paris (acquired directly from the artist)
Private Collection (acquired by descent from the above)
Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 25 March 1990, lot 56 (consigned by the above)
Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 26 November 1993, lot 24
Private Collection, Europe (acquired at the above sale)
Christie’s, London, 1 March 2017, lot 516 (consigned by the above)
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner
Antoine Salomon and Guy Cogeval, Vuillard, The Inexhaustible Glance, Critical Catalogue of Paintings and Pastels, vol. III, Paris, 2003, no. XII-355, p. 1613, illustrated
Paris, Galerie Bernheim-Jeune, Vuillard, 1953, no. 59, n.p. (titled Le Potager des Clayes and dated 1938)