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Edouard VUILLARD (1868–1940)
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Edouard VUILLARD (1868–1940)
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Estimate €450,000 - €650,000
Voluntary lot
Description
Edouard VUILLARD (1868–1940)
Misia Natanson in a Woodland – circa 1897–1899
Oil on cardboard
Signed top left ‘EVuillard’
42 cm x 56 cm
Provenance:
Alexandre Natanson, Paris
Galerie Bernheim-Jeune, Paris (stock no. 20141), acquired on 13 January 1914 (1,250 francs)
Gaston Bernheim de Villers, Paris (part of the Bernheim-Jeune estate of 1932)
Mrs R. Mosnier (née Bernheim de Villers), Paris
Galerie Huguette Bérès, Paris
Galerie Bérès, Paris
Acquired from the latter by the current owner on 15 December 2023
Louis Grandchamp des Raux Collection
Exhibitions:
Paris, Galerie Bernheim-Jeune, Vuillard, November 1908, no. 44
San Francisco, Fine Arts French Section catalogue, Panama-Pacific International Exposition, San Francisco, 1915, no. 518, p. 150
New York, Knoedler Gallery, Landscape in French Painting. 19th–20th Centuries, October–November 1931, no. 39, reproduced
Paris, Petit Palais, Masters of Independent Art 1895–1937, Room 15, June–October 1937, no. 30, p. 58
Paris, Musée des Arts décoratifs, É. Vuillard, May–July 1938, no. 64, p. 11
Paris, Galerie Bernheim-Jeune, Works by Vuillard from 1890 to 1910, January–February 1938, no. 44
Paris, Grand Palais, Antiques Biennale, Huguette and Anisabelle Berès Gallery, September–October 1992
New York, The International Fine Art Fair, Huguette and Anisabelle Berès Gallery, May 1995
Saint-Tropez, Musée de l’Annonciade, Lausanne, Cantonal Museum of Fine Arts, Édouard Vuillard. *La porte entrebâillée*, July 2000 – January 2001, no. 30, p. 172, pl. 22, reproduced on p. 100
Paris, Musée d’Orsay; Le Cannet, Musée Bonnard, *Misia, Queen of Paris*, June 2012 – January 2013, no. 53, p. 184, reproduced in colour on p. 95
Lausanne, Fondation de l’Hermitage, Vuillard and Japanese Art, June–October 2023, no. 112, p. 251, reproduced in colour on p. 175
Bibliography:
L’Estampille-L’Objet d’Art, September 1992, reproduced on p. 90
G. Groom, *Edouard Vuillard: Painter-Decorator. Patrons and Projects, 1892–1912*, Yale University Press, New Haven, London, 1993, fig. 242, reproduced on pp. 152–153
A. Salomon, G. Cogeval, *Vuillard, le regard innombrable*, critical catalogue of paintings and pastels, Skira/Seuil – Wildenstein Institute, Paris, 2003, no. VI-96, reproduced in colour on p. 516
*Gazette Drouot*, no. 13, 5 April 2019, reproduced on p. 23
Commentary:
This work is the subject of a loan request for an exhibition devoted to *La revue blanche*, to be held in Paris at the Museum of Jewish Art and History in April 2027.
This work is the subject of a loan request for an exhibition devoted to ‘Vuillard and the Theatre’, to be held at the Musée d’Orsay from March to July 2027 and at the Philippe Collection in Washington DC from October 2027 to January 2028.
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About the sale
The Louis Grandchamp des Raux Collection
Auction location
Auction time
10/24/2026 at 4:00 PM
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