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Lot 522

Édouard Vuillard

Estimate: $30,000 - $50,000

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$3,000 $250
$5,000 $500
$10,000 $1,000
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$50,000 $5,000
$100,000 $10,000

(French, 1868-1940)

Bateau … l'ancre (Boat at Anchor), 1908, signed lower right "EVuillard", distemper on brown paper, 16 x 14-5/8 in.; gilt wood and composition frame, 22-1/2 x 21-1/2 in.

Provenance: With Durand-Ruel, Paris, France, 1961; Sheridan Wood Nicholson Revocable Trust; Sold to Benefit Environmental Charitable Causes

Note: Exhibited: Durand-Ruel, Paris, France, 1961, no. 53.

Literature; Salomon 1961, p. 84 (ill.), Plaisir de France, no. 355, May 1968, p. 14, fig. 8; Salomon, Antoine, Guy Cogeval, Mathias Chivot, and E?douard Vuillard. Vuillard: The Inexhaustible Glance : Critical Catalogue of Paintings and Pastels Vol. II, Vuillard. Milano: Skira, 2003, p. 946 (ill.), VIII-256.

Distemper is a form of tempera made by mixing dry pigment into a paste with water, which is thinned with heated glue in working or by adding pigment to whiting (a mixture of fine-ground chalk and size).

Condition

hinged in, some small chipping at edges, some surface abrasions primarily at bottom, pin holes at corners; frame with abrasions