Vuillard-2012

4 Venus of Milo , 1920

Distemper on board 26 × 28 3 ⁄ 4 Signed lower right

inches ( 66 × 73 cm)

provenance Jos Hessel, Paris, bought in half share with Bernheim-Jeune, Paris, no. 22001 , March 24 , 1920 Bought in totality by Bernheim-Jeune, October 24 , 1923 Henri Canonne, Paris, November 12 , 1932 Sale, J. Canonne, Hotel Drouot, Paris, June 5 , 1942 , lot 31 Private collection. exhi b i t ions Edinburgh, Royal Scottish Academy, Pierre Bonnard & Édouard Vuillard, August 17 – September 18 , 1948 , no. 103 London, Wildenstein, Édouard Vuillard , June 1948 , no. 44 Paris, Galerie Charpentier, Vuillard, October 8 – December 5 , 1948 , no. 76 Basle, Kunsthalle, Édouard Vuillard, Charles Hug, March 26 –May 1 , 1949 , no. 220 Paris, Galerie Kleber, Gauguin et ses amis, 1949 , no. 107 Paris, Bernheim-Jeune, Vuillard, exposition au profit de l’Orphelinat des Arts, May 15 –June 30 , 1953 , no. 12