About This Artwork

Edouard Vuillard
French, 1868–1940

Foliage—Oak Tree and Fruit Seller, 1918

Distemper on canvas
76 x 111 1/2 in. (193 x 283.2 cm)
Signed, l.r.: "E Vuillard"
A Millennium Gift of Sara Lee Corporation, 1999.373

© Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris

Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories

Exhibition History

Paris, Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Exposition E. Vuillard, May–July 1938: no. 163.

New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, March 1968.

Paris, American Embassy, December 1969–May 1970.

Washington, D.C., National Gallery of Art, Selections from the Nathan Cummings Collection, June 29–September 11, 1970, no. 25 (as Public Garden).

New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Selections from the Nathan Cummings Collection, July 1–September 7, 1971, no. 25.

Washington, D.C., Federal Reserve Board, on loan May 11, 1972–August 12, 1981.

Laren, The Netherlands, Singer Museum, The Sara Lee Collection: An Impressionist Legacy, October 18, 1997–February 15, 1998.

Monet to Moore: The Millennium Gift of the Sara Lee Corporation, April 1–May 30, 1999, no. 52; traveled to Singapore, Museum of Art; Canberra, National Gallery of Australia, June 11–August 22, 1999; Raleigh, North Carolina Museum of Art, September 10–November 7, 1999; Oregon, Portland Art Museum, November 19, 1999–January 25, 1999; Chicago, Art Institute, March 15–May 28, 2000.

Chicago, Art Institute, Beyond the Easel: Decorative Paintings by Bonnard, Vuillard, Denis and Roussel, 1890–1930, February 21–May 16, 2001; traveled to New York, Metropolitan Museum of Modern Art, June 15–September 9, 2001.

Publication History

Consolidated Foods Corporation, Consolidated Foods Corporation’s Nathan Cummings Collection, Chicago: Consolidated Foods Corporation, 1983, p. 10, fig. 4.

Bretell, An Impressionist Legacy: The Collection of Sara Lee, New York Abbeville Press, 1986, 1987, 1993, 1997, pp. 70–73, 173 (ill.).

Ownership History

George Bernheim, Paris; Mr. and Mrs. Roger Darnetal; Daniel Varenne, Geneva. Nathan Cummings, Chicago; The Sara Lee Collection; gift to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1999.