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Monday, 08 June 2015, 06:00 pm

Félix Vallotton, Femme couchée

Lot 33

Félix Vallotton, 1865-1925 (CH)

Femme couchée, 1905

Oil on canvas.
H 890 mm W 1160 mm.

(Frame).
Signed and dated upper right: F. Vallotton, 05.
Verso on the stretcher label from Galerie Druet, titled "Le repos", with registered number, Nr. 6325;
Galerie Paul Vallotton SA, titled "Femme nue couchée".

Annotation:

Provenance:
Druet, Paris, No. 6325, (aquired from the artist in 1909);
Gustave Kahn, Paris;
Vente Maître Rheims, Galerie Charpentier, Paris,
12th May 1950, Lot No. 41;
J. Rodrigues-Henriques, Paris;
Estate J. Rodrigues-Henriques, Paris;
Vente Maître Loudmer, Drouot, Paris,
8th December 1986, Lot No. 49;
Galerie Vallotton, Lausanne (aquired at above auction);
Marianne Vallotton, Pully;
Claude Vallotton, Pully;
Succession Claude Vallotton, Pully;
Christie's Zürich, 21st March 2000, Lot No. 108;
Swiss private collection.

Exhibitions:
Nantes, Société des amis des arts de Nantes.
17è exposition, 31st January - 15th March 1908. No. 611 (Femme couchée);
Zurich, Künstlerhaus. Félix Vallotton, Paris,
2nd - 26th May 1909. No. 44 (Femme couchée);
Paris, Galerie Druet. Cinquante tableaux de Félix Vallotton,
3rd - 14th May 1926. No. 9 (Le repos);
Paris, Galerie Druet. Félix Vallotton 1865 - 1925,
14th - 25th October 1935. No. 7;
Paris, Grand Palais. Les Indépendants de 1905 à 1909, Société des artistes indépendants.
79è exposition, 22nd March - 15th April 1968. No. 101;
Lausanne, Galerie Vallotton. Félix Vallotton et la Russie,
12th February - 7th March 1987. No. 6;
Lausanne, Galerie Vallotton. Maîtres suisses et français des XIXè et XXè siècles, 25th June - 5th September 1987.
No. 107;
London, JPL Fine Arts. Félix Vallotton 1865 - 1925, Paintings, Watercolours, Drawings and Woodcuts
1st March - 14th April 1989. No. 7;
Basel, Galerie Bodenschatz. Félix Edouard Vallotton
1865 - 1925, peintures, gravures, sculptures, dessins,
2nd May - 22nd June 1996;
Payerne, Musée de Payerne. Félix Vallotton/Emile Chambon,
17th January - 8th March 1998;
Lausanne, Galerie Vallotton. Exposition en l'honneur du 10è anniversaire de l'antenne romande de l'ISEA,
9th May 1998.

Literature:
Catalogue des photographies Druet, approx. 1910.
No. 7804, page 241 (Le repos du modèle);
Hedy Hahnloser-Bühler. Félix Vallotton 1865 - 1925. II, Der Maler. Zurich, Verlag der Zürcher Kunstgesellschaft, 1928. Neujahrsblatt, Bildtafel XVII (Akt auf Ruhebett);
Hedy Hahnloser-Bühler. Félix Vallotton et ses amis. Paris, A. Sedrowski, 1936. No. 82 (Petite femme couchée sur un drap blanc);
Kulturzeitschrift. Le spectacle du monde. Paris, Valmonde, September 1974. No. 150, Page 96, illustration;
Marina Ducrey. Félix Vallotton, L'oeuvre peint, Catalogue raisonné, Volume II: 1965 - 1925. Zurich/ Lausanne, Institut suisse pour l'étude de l'art, 2005. No. 570, page 350, illustration in color.

CHF100'000 / 150'000
EUR90'000 / 130'000
USD100'000 / 160'000

Hammer Price: CHF 130'000