Auction 321: Modern Art | Day Sale | 8 December 2023
Edouard Vuillard

Projet d’affiche pour Phonographies par Rodolphe Darzens

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Lot 510
Edouard Vuillard
1868 Cuiseaux – La Baule 1940
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Watercolour and Indian ink over pencil on brownish wove. (Around 1890). Ca. 20 x 12.5 cm. With a pencil and Indian ink sketch of a Pierrot on the reverse. With a photo expertise by Antoine Salomon, Paris, dated 25.9.1994.

Result: € 5,080*

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With a photo expertise by Antoine Salomon, Paris, dated 25.9.1994. Provenance:The artist’s estate, with stamp (Lugt 909c); Jill Newhouse Gallery, New York, with label on the back panel of the frame; collection of Jeffrey Archer, London; Christie’s, The Jeffrey Archer Sale. Decades of collecting, London 28.6.2011, lot 25; private collection, Munich.

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In 1890, the French writer, poet and theater director Rodolphe Darzens (1865-1938) asked his friend, the painter Édouard Vuillard, to design an advertising poster for his “Phonographies” project. A total of three sketches of this subject by Vuillard are known to exist.

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