Vuillard-2012

1 Misia Sert and her Niece Mimi Godebska, known as The Black Cups , c. 1923 – 5

Distemper on canvas 55 1 ⁄ 8 × 68 7 ⁄ 8

inches ( 140 × 175 cm)

Signed lower left

provenance Artist’s studio Private collection JPL Fine Arts, London Neffe-Degandt Fine Art, London.

exhi b i t ions Venice, Venice Biennale , French Pavillion, April 1934 , no. 153 Brussels, Ministre des Sciences et des Arts, Exposition universelle et internationale, September 1935 , no. 665 Strasbourg, 1936 Paris, Galerie Charpentier, Vuillard , October 8 – December 5 , 1948 , no. 84 bis Paris, Galerie Bernheim-Jeune, Vuillard, May 15 – June 30 , 1953 , no. 13 Amsterdam, Van Wisselingh, Maitres Français XIXe et XXe siècles, November 21 –December 23 , 1966 , no. 22 Toronto, San Francisco, and Chicago, Édouard Vuillard, 1868-1940 , 1971 – 2 , no. 227 , p. 70 , pl. XVI London, JPL Fine Arts, É. Vuillard, Portraits and Related Studies in Pencil and Pastel , May 24 – July 29 , 1983 , p. 6 , illus.