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Edouard Vuillard (1868-1940)
Femme assise
with the stamped initials 'E.V.' (L.909a; lower right)
pencil on paper
8 5/8 x 4 7/8 in. (21.8 x 12.3 cm.)
Executed in 1919-1920
Provenance
Noortman Gallery, London.
Jill Newhouse Gallery, New York.
Anonymous sale, Sotheby's, London, 22 February 1989, lot 18.
Dr Anton C.R. Dreesmann (no. C-198), by whom acquired from the above sale; his sale, Christie's, London, 9 April 2002, lot 49.
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner.
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Lot Essay

This work will be included in the forthcoming supplement of the Edouard Vuillard catalogue critique currently being prepared by the Wildenstein Institute.

The present work is a study for a portrait of Madame Reine Georges Bénard.

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