Edouard Vuillard
Madame Hessel Seated beneath a Lamp

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Artist Edouard Vuillard(French, 1868–1940)French, 1868–1940

CultureFrench

Titles

Madame Hessel Seated beneath a Lamp

Datec. 1905

PlaceParis, France

MediumOil on board

Dimensions28 × 27 in. (71.1 × 68.6 cm)

Credit LineJohn A. and Audrey Jones Beck Collection, gift of Audrey Jones Beck

Object number98.311

Current Location

The Audrey Jones Beck Building

225 Beck Galleries

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European Art, Beck Collection

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PAINTING

ProvenanceHillman Periodicals, New York (Alex Hillman Family Foundation, New York) at least by January 1954 [1] [2] ; [sale, Sotheby’s, London, “Impressionist and Modern Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture,” April 29, 1964, lot 32 as “Femme assise devant une lampe,” illus.] [3]; Mr. John A. and Mrs. Audrey Jones Beck, Houston, 1964 [4] ; given to MFAH, 1998.

[1] An American magazine and comic book publishing company founded in 1938 by Alex L. Hillman.

[2] The work is listed in the cited 1954 traveling exhibition as “Woman seated in a Room, 1899” and owned by “Hillman Periodicals, Inc., New York.” Op. cit., pp. 62 (illus.), 102.

[3] One of three works purchased by the Becks at this sale: [lot 32-Vuillard “Femme assise devant une lampe”, lot 43 Sunyer’s pastel “La Toilette,” which was erroneously attributed to Picasso in the catalogue, and lot 116 Rouault’s “Pierrot.” Two of these works were later gifted to the MFAH. The Vuillard is listed as the having been the property of “Hillman Periodicals, Inc., New York,” without indication of ownership dates.

[4] No additional provenance information is recorded in Salomon, Antoine and Guy Cogeval. Vuillard: The Inexhaustible Glance, (Milano: Skira Editore and Paris: Wildenstein Institute, 2003), vol. 2, cat. no. VII-344, p. 711.

Exhibition HistoryEXHIBITED: New York / Cleveland: The Museum of Modern Art / The Cleveland Museum of Art, "Édouard Vuillard", 1954, p. 62.
EXHIBITED: Houston, The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, "The Collection of John A. and Audrey Jones Beck", 1974, pp. 100-101.

Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks

Inscription: Stamp used is the artist's distinctive mark incorporating his initials so that the vertical lines of the T and the L are also either the vertical lines for a letter H or are connected by a hyphen. The entire device is surrounded by a circle.:

Signed, upper right, recto: "E Vuillard"

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