
Art Institute of Chicago
Vuillard's Room at the Château des Clayes
Édouard Jean Vuillard · c. 1932
Provenance
Ownership history
- Émile Laffargue, Paris, c. 1938. Roland Leten, Ghent (Belgium), by 1953 [label on verso]. Marlborough Fine Art Limited, London, 1967. Mary and Leigh Block, Chicago, by 1973. Gift to the Art Institute, 1973.
Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.
Exhibitions
Exhibition history
- Paris, Musée des Arts Décoratifs, É. Vuillard, May-July 1938, no. 210 (as Aux Clayes. Intérieur avec une cheminée et une table bleue, c. 1935).
- Ghent, Museum voor Schone Kunsten, Gentse Verzamelingen, March-May, 1953.
- Paris, Musée National d'Art Moderne, L'École de Paris dans les collections belges, July-October 1959, no. 168.
- London, Marlborough Fine Art, A Tribute to Paul Maze, the Painter and his Time, May 1967, no. 121.
- New York, Marlborough Fine Art, Master of the 20th Century, 1971, no. 85.
- New York, The Jewish Museum, Edouard Vuillard: A Painter and His Muses, 1890-1940. May 4-September 23, 2012.
Literature
Published references
- The Art Institute of Chicago Annual report 1972-73, p. 29, pl. 17.
- Émilie Daniel, Vuillard, l'espace de l'intimité, doctorate diss., Paris, Institut d'Art et d'Archéologie, 1984, pp. 417, 419, fig. 148.
- Belinda Thomson, Vuillard, Oxford, Phaidon Press, 1988, pp. 150, 140, pl. 129.
- Ann Dumas, “A la recherche de Vuillard,” Vuillard, Paris, Flammarion, 1990, p. 96 (ill.).
- Guy Cogeval, Vuillard. Le temps détourné, Découvertes (ser.) no. 178, Paris, Gallimard and RMN, 1993, p. 103.
- Antoine Salomon and Guy Congeval, Edouard Vuillard: The Inexhaustible Glance: Critical Catalogue of Paintings and Pastels vol. 3, Milan, Skira, 2003, no. XII-255.
- Stephan Brown, "An Artist, His Patrons, and the Muses", Edouard Vuillard: A Painter and His Muses, 1890-1940, Exh. cat. The Jewish Museum, 2012, p. 68.
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