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ÉDOUARD VUILLARD (1868-1940)
Femme à la blouse rayée et jupe droite à volants
with the Haviland & Co. (Limoges) mark 'H & Co. L FRANCE' (underneath)
porcelain plate with colored engobe and glaze
Diameter: 9 1/2 in. (24.2 cm.)
Executed in September 1895 as part of a set of 96 plates for a wedding service commissioned by Jean Schopfer; unique
Provenance
Jean Schopfer, Paris (commissioned from the artist, 1895).
Mme Jean Schopfer (Alice Nye Wetherbee), Paris (by descent from the above, 1931).
Frances Lasker and Sidney F. Brody, Los Angeles.
By descent from the above to the late owner, 2009.
Literature
J. Schopfer, "Modern Decoration," The Architectural Record, vol. VI, no. 3, January-March 1897, pp. 248-
255 (other versions illustrated).
N.J. Troy, "Toward a Redefinition of Tradition in French Design," Design Issues, vol. 1, Autumn 1984, pp. 58-59 (another version illustrated, p. 58).
G.P. Weisberg, Art Nouveau Bing: Paris Style 1900, New York, 1986, pp. 69 and 94-95 (other versions illustrated).
C. Frèches-Thory and A. Terrasse, Les Nabis, Paris, 1990, pp. 191-192 (other versions illustrated).
N.J. Troy, Modernism and the Decorative Arts in France: Art Nouveau to Le Corbusier, New Haven, 1991, pp. 20-30 (other versions illustrated, p. 25).
G. Groom, Edouard Vuillard Painter-Decorator, Patrons and Projects, 1892-1912, New Haven, 1993, pp. 74-75 (other versions illustrated).
A. Salomon and G. Cogeval, Vuillard: Le regard innombrable, Catalogue critique des peintures et pastels, Paris, 2003, vol. I, p. 451 (another version illustrated).
A. Leduc Beaulieu, "An Art Nouveau Experiment: Edouard Vuillard's Porcelain Wedding Service for Jean Schopfer, 1895," Studies in the Decorative Arts, vol. XIII, no. 1, fall-winter 2005-2006, pp. 72-89 (other versions illustrated).
Post lot text
This work will be included in the forthcoming supplement of the catalogue critique of paintings, drawings and ceramics by Edouard Vuillard being prepared by the Archives Vuillard.