![Édouard Vuillard, Étude pour le portrait de Dr. Viau (Study for the Portrait of Dr. Viau)](https://s3-eu-central-1.amazonaws.com/germann-master/item_images/images/000/041/843/large/1001562.jpeg?1667296695)
Lot 63
Pencil on paper.
H 212 mm W 125 mm.
Signed and titled lower right: Vuillard, Étude pour le portrait de Dr. Viau. Verso on frame cover label of the Kunsthaus Zürich. (Frame).
CHF | 4'000 / 6'000 |
EUR | 4'000 / 6'000 |
USD | 4'000 / 6'000 |
Hammer Price: CHF 3'800
Provenance:
Collection Gustav Zumsteg, Zurich (verso with label);
Koller Auktionen, Zurich, 8 December 2006, Lot 3151;
Swiss Private Property.
This drawing is a prestudy for the illustration of Dr. Viau in the painting "Le Docteur Georges Viau dans son cabinet dentaire" of 1914, which belongs to the Musée d'Orsay in Paris. (See. Antoine Salomon und Guy Cogeval. Vuillard. The inexhaustible Glance. Critical Catalogue of Paintings and Pastels. Vol. II. Paris 2003, IX-234, illustration on page 1170.)