About This Artwork

Édouard Vuillard
French, 1868-1940

Vuillard's Room at the Château des Clayes, c. 1932

Distemper on paper, mounted on canvas
30 5/8 x 39 7/16 in. (77.8 x 100.2 cm)
Signed, l.r.: "E. Vuillard"
Gift of Mary and Leigh Block, 1973.337

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

Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories

Exhibition History

Ghent, Museum voor Schone Kunsten, Gentse Verzamelingen, 1953. L’Art Francais dans les Collections Belges.

Publication History

Belinda Thomson, Vuillard (Oxford, 1988), pp. 150, 140 (ill.).

Ann Dumas, “A la recherche de Vuillard,” Vuillard (Paris, 1990), p. 96 (ill.).

Ownership History

Roland Leten, Brussels, by 1953 [label on verso]. Marlborough Fine Art Limited. Mary and Leigh Block, Chicago, by 1973. Gift to the Art Institute, 1973.