Paintings, Drawings, Sculpture

Edouard Vuillard french , 1868 – 1940 . At the Window ( À la fenêtre )

c. 1892 Oil on paper mounted on panel 6 5 ⁄ 8 x 6 3 ⁄ 8 inches ( 17 x 16 . 5 cm) Stamped lower left

provenance Artist’s studio Private collection, Paris

Sale, Hôtel Rameau, Versailles, June 15 , 1967 , lot 188 (BI) Sale, Hôtel Rameau, Versailles, March 27 , 1977 , lot 90 Collection Georges Bernier, Paris Private collection, Paris. literature Antoine Salomon & Guy Gogeval. Vuillard, Catalogue critique des peintures et pastels . Paris: Skira, 2003 . Vol II, p. 628 (with incorrect date) exhibition New York, Wildenstein & Co., La revue blanche: Paris in the days of Post- Impressionism and Symbolism , November 17 –December 1983 , p. 45 , illustrated. A solitary figure of a man with a large black hat is seen in a window starkly silhouetted by the light striking the garden in the background. Patterns of green and yellow of the trees outside are juxtaposed with the patterns of the light on the wallpaper and the dark walls. Especially in his Nabi period, Vuillard was fascinated by the depiction of silhouettes, reflections, views through doorways and windows, and patterns. This small work, recently redated by Mathias Chivot to 1892 , epitomizes the