LOT DETAILS

Materials:

oil on canvas

Measurements:

25.83 in. (65.60 cm.) (height) by 45.28 in. (115.00 cm.) (width)

Markings:

signed 'E. Vuillard' (lower right)

Exhibited:

Paris, Maison de l'Art Nouveau, Premier salon de l'art nouveau, December 1895-January 1896, no. 210. Berlin, Ausstellungshaus am Kurfürstendamm, Elfte Aisstellung der Berliner Secession, Spring 1906, no. 296 (titled Dekorationsbilder). Kunsthaus Zürich, Fransosische Kunst des XIX u XX Jahrhunderts, October-November 1917, p. 37, no. 355 (titled La femme dans les fleurs). Paris, Hôtel de la Curiosité et des Beaux-Arts, Cent ans de peinture française, March-April 1922, no. 161 (titled Panneau décoratif). Bristol, The Royal West of England Academy, French Modern Art, May-June 1930, p. 14, no. 94 (titled Amidst the Flowers). New York, Jacques Seligmann & Co., Inc., Paintings by Bonnard, Vuillard, Roussel, October 1930, no. 31 (titled Dans les fleurs and dated 1901). Kunsthaus Zürich, Bonnard, Vuillard, May-July 1932, p. 26, no. 124 (titled Dans les fleurs and dated 1892-1893 and with inverted dimensions). Paris, Musée du Louvre, Le décor de la vie sous la IIIème République de 1870 à 1900, April-July 1933, p. 42, no. 339 (titled Dans les fleurs and dated 1892). London, Arthur Tooth & Sons, Ltd., An Exhibition of Paintings and Pastels by E. Vuillard, June 1934, no. 5 (titled Dans les fleurs). Paris, Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Exposition E. Vuillard, May-June 1938, no. 37a (titled Dans les fleurs). Amsterdam, Stedelijk Museum, Porijsche schilders, Bonnard, Braque, Léger, Matisse, Picasso, Rouault, Utrillo, Vuillard, Tentoongstrelit onder de suspicien ren de "Association francaise d'action artistique", February-April 1939, no. 136 (titled Tusschen de bloemen). Buenos Aires, Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, La pintura francesa de David a nuestros dias, July-August 1939, p. 156, no. 202a (titled Escenas de interior, en las flores; dated 1893 and with inverted dimensions). Montevideo, Salón Nacional de Bellas Artes, La Pintura Francesa: De David a Nuestros Días, April 1940, no. 149. Rio de Janeiro, Museu Nacional de Belas Artes, Exposiçã de Pintura Francesa, July 1940, no. 171. San Francisco, M.H. de Young Memorial Museum, The Painting of France Since the French Revolution, December 1940-January 1941, p. 41, no. 169 (titled In the Flowers and dated 1893). Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Aspects of French painting from Cézanne to Picasso, January-March 1941, no. 62 (titled In the Flowers and dated 1893). The Art Institute of Chicago, Masterpieces of French Art Lent by the Museums and Collectors of France, April-May 1941, p. 42, no. 166 (titled Among the Flowers and dated 1893). New York, Paul Rosenberg & Co., Paintings by Bonnard and Vuillard, January 1943, no. 5. New York, Durand-Ruel Galleries, Manet to Picasso: Still Life, Exhibition for the Benefit of the Children's Aid Society Homemaker Service, March 1944, no. 22 (illustrated; titled Le dejeuner fleuri). Boston, The Institute of Modern Art, La Vie Française: An Exhibition of Paintings Chiefly by Pierre Bonnard and Edouard Vuillard, October-November 1944, no. 24 (titled Fleurs dans un vase emailè and dated circa 1900). Washington, D.C., The French Embassy, French Paintings of the Twentieth Century (1900-1933), 1945, no. 78 (titled Dans les fleurs and dated circa 1901). New York, Paul Rosenberg & Co., Exhibition of French Paintings of the XIXth and XXth Centuries, November-December 1945, no. 11 (titled Dans les Fleurs and dated circa 1900). Kunsthalle Basel, Edouard Vuillard, March-May 1949, p. 18, no. 232 (titled Conversation). The Brooklyn Museum, The Intimate Interiors of Edouard Vuillard, May-July 1990, p. 117. The Art Institute of Chicago and New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Beyond the Easel: Decorative Paintings by Bonnard, Vuillard, Denis, and Roussel, 1890-1930, February-September 2001, pp. 126-131 and 266, no. 38 (illustrated in color, p. 129). Washington, D.C., National Gallery of Art, Edouard Vuillard, January-April 2003, p. 186, no. 128 (illustrated in color, p. 190).

Literature:

E. Couturier, "Galerie S. Bing: Le mobilier" in La Revue Blanche, 15 January 1896, vol. 10, no. 63, p. 93. J. Daurelle, "Curiosités" in Mercure de France, 1 July 1908, p. 188. A. Segard, Peintres d'aujourd'hui: Les décorateurs, Paris, 1914, p. 320. T. Bernard, "Jos Hessel" in La Renaissance, January 1930, p. 25 (illustrated; titled Dans les fleurs). R. Huyghé and M. Faré, "L'ésprit du XIXe siècle" in Promethée, May 1939, no. 4, p. 52 (illustrated; titled Madame J.A. Fontaine and with incorrect provenance). J. Salomon, Vuillard, Paris, 1945, p. 47. A. Chastel, Vuillard, Paris, 1946, p. 24 (illustrated; titled Conversation). C. Roger-Marx, Vuillard: His Life and Work, London, 1946, pp. 53 and 54 (illustrated, p. 133; titled Dans les fleurs). C. Roger-Marx, Vuillard, Paris, 1948, p. 25, no. 4 (illustrated, p. 30; titled Dans les fleurs). C. Schweicher, Die Bildraumgestaltung, dar Dekorative und das Ornamentale im Werke von Edouard Vuillard, Zürich, 1949, pp. 77-79, 82, and 88. F. Hermann, Die 'Revue Blanche' und die Nabis, Munich, 1959, vol. I, p. 219, vol. II, p. 431 (titled Dans les fleurs). R. Bacou, "Décors d'appartements au temps des Nabis" in Art de France: Etudes et chroniques sur l'art ancien et moderne, 1964, p. 196, note 28. J. Dugdale, "Vuillard the Decorator, I. First Phase: The 1890s" in Apollo, February 1965, vol. LXXXI, no. 36, p. 97. C. Roger-Marx, Vuillard Interieurs, Lausanne, 1968, pp. 32 and 34 (titled Dance of the Flowers). G.L. Mauner, The Nabis: Their History and Their Art, 1888-1896, New York, 1978, p. 261. C. Frèches-Thory, "Jardin publics de Vuillard" in La revue du Louvre et des musées de France, 1979, vol. XXIX, no. 4, p. 312, note 18. B. Thomson, Vuillard, New York, 1988, p. 40. J. Warnod, Vuillard, Paris, 1988, p. 35. C.B. Bailey, J.J. Rishel and M. Rosenthal, Masterpieces of Impressionism and Post-Impressionism: The Annenberg Collection, exh. cat., Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1989, pp. 112-113 and 197, notes 9 and 10 (titled Dressing Table (Dans les fleurs)). M. Makarius, Vuillard, Paris, 1989, p. 24 (titled Dans les fleurs). A. Dumas and G. Cogeval, Vuillard, exh. cat., Musée des Beaux-Arts, Lyon, 1990, p. 231. C. Frèches-Thory and A. Terrasse, The Nabis: Bonnard, Vuillard, and their Circle, Paris, 1990, pp. 122-126 (illustrated, p. 123). J. Chippindale and P. Aldridge, Vuillard: A National Touring Exhibition from the South Bank Center, exh. cat., Art Gallery and Museum, Kelvingrove, Glasgow, 1991, pp. 47 and 90. G. Groom, Edouard Vuillard, Painter-Decorator, Patrons and Projects, 1892-1912, New Haven, 1993, pp. 69-81 and 223, no. 44 (illustrated in color, p. 70, pl. 116; detail illustrated in color, p. 79). U. Perucchi-Petri, Nabis, 1888-1900, exh. cat., Kunsthaus Zürich, 1993, pp. 304 and 342 (illustrated, fig. 172.2). A. Salomon and G. Cogeval, Vuillard: Le regard innombrable, catalogue critique des peintures et pastels, Paris, 2003, vol. I, p. 432, no. V-96.4 (illustrated in color).

Provenance:

Thadée and Misia Natanson, Paris (commissioned from the artist); sale, Maître H. Baudoin, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 13 June 1908, lot 53. Jos Hessel, Paris (acquired at the above sale and until at least 1941). C.M. de Hauke & Co., Inc., New York. Private collection, Switzerland; sale, Christie's, New York, 14 November 1989, lot 55. Private collection, Japan (acquired at the above sale). Wildenstein & Co., Ltd., London. Acquired from the above by the late owners, 22 November 1996.