Evening in the Garden of the Alcazar

1892/95

Édouard Jean Vuillard
French, 1868-1940

Status: On View, Gallery 226
Department: Prints and Drawings

Artist: Édouard Jean Vuillard
Title: Evening in the Garden of the Alcazar
Place: France (Artist's nationality:)
Date Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.: 1892–1895
Medium: Gouache and distemper on cream wove paper, laid down on wood-pulp card
Inscriptions: Signed recto, lower right, in brush and blue gouache: "E. Vuillard"
Dimensions: Primary support: 48.4 × 43.4 cm (19 1/16 × 17 1/8 in.); Secondary support: 48.8 × 43.6 cm (19 1/4 × 17 3/16 in.)
Credit Line: Gift of the Joseph and Helen Regenstein Foundation
Reference Number: 1964.2
Copyright: © 2018 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris

The Art Institute of Chicago Quarterly LVII: 1 (1964), p. 5 (ill.).
Harold Joachim, French Drawings and Sketchbooks of the Nineteenth Century (Chicago and London, 1979) p. 121, no. 7B6.
Guy Cogeval, Edouard Vuillard (January 2003).

Palm Beach, Fla., Society of Four Arts, “Drawings from The Art Institute of Chicago,” January 5–27, 1974, cat. 52.
The Art Institute of Chicago, “The Helen Regenstein Collection of European Drawings,” 1974, pp. 166-67, cat. 82 (ill.), cat. by Harold Joachim.
The Arts Club of Chicago, “E. Vuillard: Drawings from the Ayrton Collection (AFA) Works on Paper from The Art Institute of Chicago Collection,” January 14-February 16, 1980.
The Art Institute of Chicago, September 8, 1988-December 8, 1989.
The Art Institute of Chicago, “The Broad Spectrum: Color on Paper, Past and Present,” September 12–October 31, 1999, hors. cat.
Washington, D.C., National Gallery of Art, “Edouard Vuillard,” January 19, 2003-April 20, 2003, p. 120, cat. 65 (ill.); also traveled to Montreal, Canada, Musée des Beaux-Arts, May 15, 2003-August 24, 2003.

Félix Fénéon (1861-1944), Paris, possibly acquired directly from the artist [Lugt 924a]; sold, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, Fénéon sale, May 30, 1947, lot 58 to Theodore Schempp, New York [curatorial notes; Schempp visited in 1971 and told curators that he purchased the drawing from the Fénéon sale and later sold it to Seligmann]; sold to Jacques Seligmann, Paris. Georges Bernheim, Paris [Thannhauser]. Roger Dametal [Thannhauser]. Sold by Justin K. Thannhauser, New York, to the Art Institute, 1964.

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