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Edouard Vuillard
Nude on a Chair (Nu à la chaise)1904

On view:
Broad Contemporary Art Museum, floor 3
Oil painting of a nearly nude figure seated with her back to us in a pale, loosely rendered interior, with loose impressionistic brushwork in cream, peach, and blue tones
Reverse of a framed canvas showing aged brown fabric with handwritten French inscription in ink, remnants of old labels, and a small printed gallery sticker at top.
Artist or Maker
Edouard Vuillard
France, Cuiseaux, 1868-1940
Title
Nude on a Chair (Nu à la chaise)
Place Made
France
Date Made
1904
Medium
Oil on cardboard
Dimensions
22 5/8 x 12 13/16 in. (57.5 x 32.5 cm)
Credit Line
Partial, fractional and promised gift of Janice and Henri Lazarof
Accession Number
M.2005.70.128
Classification
Paintings
Collecting Area
Modern Art
Provenance
The artist (1868-1940); given to Mme. Félix Fénéon, Paris; [ Félix Fénéon Sale, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 30 May 1947, lot 59]; [Sam Salz, New York]; [Galerie Katia Granoff, Paris]; [sold at Hôtel Drouot, 26 June 1986, lot 71]; [sold at Sotheby's, New York, 16 Nov 1989, lot 361]; [Galerie Rosengart, Lucerne]; sold in 1992 toJanice and Henri Lazarof, Los Angeles;given in2005 to LACMA.
Selected Bibliography
  • Barron, Stephanie. Envisioning Modernism: The Janice and Henri Lazarof Collection. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Munich; New York: DelMonico Books-Prestel, 2012.