The Artist's Mother Playing Checkers

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Prints and Drawings

c. 1890–91

Edouard Jean Vuillard
French, 1868-1940

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Prints and Drawings

Artist: Édouard Jean Vuillard
Title: The Artist's Mother Playing Checkers
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.: 1885–1895
Medium: Pastel, with graphite, stumping and erasing on ivory wove paper
Inscriptions: Signed recto, lower right, in pen and black ink: "E Vuillard"; stamped lower right, in black ink: "EV"
Dimensions: Max: 37.5 × 30.5 cm (14 13/16 × 12 1/16 in.)
Credit Line: Gift of Mary and Leigh Block
Reference Number: 1956.35
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New York, Wildenstein and Company, “Master Drawings from The Art Institute of Chicago,” October 17-November 30, 1963, n.p., cat. 149, as “The Game of Checkers.”
Chicago, Arts Club, “E. Vuillard: Drawings from the Ayrton Collection,” January 14-February 16, 1980.

Estate of the artist [Lugt suppl. 909b]. Sold by Huguette Berès, Paris, to the Art Institute, 1956.

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