£32,700
Avant Garde : Art from 1890 to Now | 743
Auction: 27 April 2023 at 19:00 BST
stamped with studio stamp (Lugt 909c) (lower right)
watercolour, India ink and wash on paper
Provenance
The Estate of the Artist
Kunsthandel Sabine Helms, München, where acquired by Tom Grobien, London, in 1977
Thence by descent to the present owner
The work is accompanied by a certificate of authenticity from Archives Vuillard, dated 31 January 2023, and will be included in the forthcoming supplement to the artist's catalogue raisonné being prepared by Mathias Chivot
'Madame Vuillard was a particular focus during the initial decade of the artist’s career. During this period Vuillard and his widowed mother shared a series of modest rented apartments in which the artist worked from his ‘studio-bedroom’ while in the dining room Madame Vuillard ran a sewing business… In Vuillard’s small yet absorbing artworks we find a diversity of femininity and feminine experience in domesticity, complex and intimate relationships of care and authority between women and multiple modes of women’s immaterial labour made visible…A woman whose unremarkable life did not otherwise merit historical record-keeping has emerged, via modern art, as compelling object of historical analysis.’
Nicola Kalinsky and Francesca Berry, exhibition catalogue for Maman: Vuillard & Madame Vuillard, The Barber Institute of Fine Arts, University of Birmingham, 2018