Louis-Dreyfus Family Collection 2019

Edouard Vuillard french, 1868-1940 Zinnias on the Table at Vaucresson , 1921–23

Pastel on paper mounted to board 19 ⅝ by 20 ⅛ inches ( 50 by 51 cm) Signed lower right provenance David David-Weill, Paris; Seized by the Nazis during the German occupation, 1939 – 45 ; returned in 1954 ; with Galerie Schmit, Paris, 1973 ; Private collection, Paris; sale, Hotel Okura (Ader), Tokyo, June 19 , 1990 , lot 34 ; Collection of Pierre Louis-Dreyfus; William Louis-Dreyfus, by descent from above. exhibitions New York, Museum of Modern Art. Edouard Vuillard . excat. ed. Andrew Carnduff Ritchie. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1954 . Cleveland Museum of Art, January 26 –March 14 and MoMA, April 7 –June 6 , 1954 , p. 104 (as Still Life , c. 1928 ) loaned by Madame David-Weill, Neuilly; Munich, Haus der Kunst Munchen. Edouard Vuillard, Xavier Roussel . March 16 –May 12 , and Musée de l’Orangerie, May 28 –September 16 , 1968 . excat. ed. Pierre Georgel. Roetherdruck: Darmstadt, 1968 , no. 168 , illus (German ed), no. 162 , illustrated (French ed); Paris, Galerie Schmit. Tableaux de maîtres français, 1900 – 1955 . May 16 –June 16 , 1973 . no. 67 , illustrated. bibliography Repertoire des biens spolies en France 1947 , p. 241 , no. 5402 ; Antoine Salomon, Guy Gogeval, and Mathias Chivot. Vuillard, The Inexhaustible Glance: Critical Catalogue of Paintings and Pastels . 1 st ed. New York: Rizzoli International through St. Martin’s Press, 2003 , Vol. III. no. xi – 36 , p. 1315 .

The Closerie des Genets at Vaucresson was the holiday home Vuillard rented from 1917 – 1925 .