Edouard Vuillard (1868-1940)

Ma mre (My Mother)

Details

Edouard Vuillard (1868-1940)
Ma mre (My Mother)
signed 'E Vuillard' (lower left)
oil on board
9 x 7.3/8 in. (24.2 x 18.8 cm.)
Painted circa 1895

Provenance

Galerie Renon et Colle, Paris (1944)
Sam Salz, Inc., New York
Wiliam and Edith Mayer Goetz, Beverly Hills; sale, Christie's, New York, 14 November 1988, lot 19 (acquired by the present owner)

Literature

A.M. Frankfurter, "The Goetz Collection", Art News, September 1951, p. 57.
S. Preston, Edouard Vuillard, New York, 1974, fig. 9 (illustrated, p. 16).

Exhibited

San Francisco, California Palace Legion of Honor, The Collection of Mr. and Mrs. William Goetz, April-May 1959, no. 63 (illustrated).

Lot Essay

Vuillard's mother was a widow for forty-five of her ninety years. Her name was Marie Michaud when she married Joseph Franois Honore Vuillard, a professional soldier twenty-seven years her senior. He died leaving her with little means of support and she spent most of her life as a professional corset-maker, retiring in 1898. She died in 1928.

Antoine Salomon will include this painting in his forthcoming Vuillard catagloue raisonn.