
The Cindy and Jay Pritzker Collection
Femme couchée dormant (Le Sommeil)
Estimate
1,800,000 - 2,500,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
The Cindy and Jay Pritzker Collection
Félix Vallotton
(1865 - 1925)
Femme couchée dormant (Le Sommeil)
signed F. Vallotton and dated 99 (lower left)
peinture à la colle on paper laid down on board mounted on cradled panel
22 by 30 ⅛ in. 55.8 by 76.5 cm.
Executed in 1899.
Galerie Bernheim-Jeune, Paris
Paul Rosenberg, Paris (acquired from the above in 1900)
Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 21 May 1909, lot 43 (consigned by the above)
Galerie Bernheim-Jeune, Paris (acquired at the above sale)
Pierre Goujon, Paris (acquired by 1914)
Lily Goujon-Reinach, Paris (acquired by descent from the above)
Private Collection, Paris (acquired by descent from the above)
Wildenstein & Co. Inc., New York (acquired from the above in 1985)
Acquired from the above on 3 April 1986 by the present owner
Paris, Galerie Bernheim-Jeune, Oeuvres de Bonnard, Maurice Denis, Ibels, Aristide Maillol, Hermann Paul, Ranson, Roussel, Sérusier, Vallotton, Vuillard, 1900, no. 7 (titled Sommeil)
New Haven, Yale University Art Gallery; Houston, Museum of Fine Arts; Indianapolis Museum of Art; Amsterdam, Van Gogh Museum and Lausanne, Musée cantonal des Beaux-Arts, Félix Vallotton: A Retrospective, 1991-93, no. 19, p. 24, illustrated in color; pp. 113 and 297 (catalogued as oil on board) (New Haven); no. 19, p. 24, illustrated in color; pp. 113 and 313 (Lausanne)
Livre de Raison, no. 411
Thadée Natanson, “Félix Vallotton, peintre,” L’Art décoratif. Revue internationale d’art industriel et de décoration, vol. II, issue 19, October 1899-March 1900, p. 5, illustrated (titled Dormant)
André Fontainas, “Art moderne,” Mercure de France, vol. 34, May 1900, p. 544
Julius Meier-Graefe, “Félix Vallotton,” Dekorative Kunst. Illustrierte Zeitschrift für angewandte Kunst, vol. VI, issue 7, 1900, p. 293, illustrated (titled Im Schlaf)
Mir Iskousstva, Le Monde artiste, Saint Petersburg, nos. 2-3, 1901, p. 64, illustrated
Hedy Hahnloser-Bühler, Félix Vallotton et ses amis, Paris, 1936, no. 411, p. 284
Exh. Cat., Kunsthaus Zürich, Félix Vallotton, Werkverzeichnis 1865-1925, 1938, no. 411, p. 49
Günter Busch, Bernard Dorival, Patrick Grainville and Doris Jakubec, Vallotton, Lausanne, 1985, pl. 97, p. 101, illustrated; p. 234 (as oil on canvas)
Marina Ducrey, Félix Vallotton, His Life, His Technique, His Paintings, Lausanne, 1989, p. 82; p. 83, illustrated in color
Exh. Cat., Lyon, Musée des Beaux-Arts and Marseille, Musée Cantini, Le très singulier Vallotton, 2001, p. 58 (note 29)
Marina Ducrey and Katia Poletti, Félix Vallotton, 1865-1925, L’Oeuvre peint, Lausanne, 2005, no. 283, vol. I, p. 252, illustrated in color; pp. 251 and 273; vol. II, p. 173, illustrated in color
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