Foliage—Oak Tree and Fruit Seller by Édouard Jean Vuillard
Art Institute of Chicago

Foliage—Oak Tree and Fruit Seller

Édouard Jean Vuillard · 1918

Provenance

Ownership history

  1. Commissioned from the artist by Georges Bernheim, Paris, 1918; Roger Darnetal, Paris; Daniel Varenne, Geneva; Nathan Cummings, New York, on loan to the US Embassy in Paris from December 1969 to May 1970; on loan to the Federal Reserve Board, Washington D.C., from 11May 1972 to 12 August 1981; Sara Lee Corporation, Chicago, 1981; Millennium Gift of the Sara Lee Corporation to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1999.

Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.

Exhibitions

Exhibition history

  • Zurich, Kunsthaus, Pierre Bonnard. Édouard Vuillard, May 29 – July 3, 1932, cat. 171 (as Grand Paysage).
  • Paris, Les Cardres (Bolette Natanson), Peintres de La Revue Blanche, June 12–30, 1936, cat. 72.
  • Paris, Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Exposition E. Vuillard, May–July 1938: no. 163.
  • New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, March 1968.
  • Paris, American Embassy, December 1969–May 1970.
  • Washington, D.C., National Gallery of Art, Selections from the Nathan Cummings Collection, June 29–September 11, 1970, no. 25 (as Public Garden).
  • New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Selections from the Nathan Cummings Collection, July 1–September 7, 1971, no. 25.
  • Washington, D.C., Federal Reserve Board, on loan May 11, 1972–August 12, 1981.
  • Laren, The Netherlands, Singer Museum, The Sara Lee Collection: An Impressionist Legacy, October 18, 1997–February 15, 1998.
  • Monet to Moore: The Millennium Gift of the Sara Lee Corporation, April 1–May 30, 1999, no. 52; traveled to Singapore, Museum of Art; Canberra, National Gallery of Australia, June 11–August 22, 1999; Raleigh, North Carolina Museum of Art, September 10–November 7, 1999; Oregon, Portland Art Museum, November 19, 1999–January 25, 1999; Chicago, Art Institute, March 15–May 28, 2000.
  • Chicago, Art Institute, Beyond the Easel: Decorative Paintings by Bonnard, Vuillard, Denis and Roussel, 1890–1930, February 21–May 16, 2001, cat. 84; traveled to New York, Metropolitan Museum of Modern Art, June 15–September 9, 2001.

Literature

Published references

  • Jean Messelet, "L'exposition Vuillard au musée des Arts décoratifs," Bulletin des musées de France 10, no. 4, May 1938, p. 67.
  • Consolidated Foods Corporation, Consolidated Foods Corporation’s Nathan Cummings Collection, Chicago: Consolidated Foods Corporation, 1983, p. 10, fig. 4.
  • Belinda Thomson, Vuillard, Oxford, Phaidon Press, 1988, p. 122, col. pl. 108.
  • Bretell, An Impressionist Legacy: The Collection of Sara Lee, New York Abbeville Press, 1986, 1987, 1993, 1997, pp. 70–73, 173 (ill.).
  • Antoine Salomon and Guy Cogeval, Vuillard: The Inexhaustible Glance Critical Catalogue of Paintings and Pastels, vol. 3 (Milan: Skira; Paris Wildenstein Institute, 2003), cat. XI-1 (color ill.), as Greenery.

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